If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a magnificent spiral galaxy with a disc of stars spanning over 100,000 light-years, according to NASA reports. Earth is located within one of its spiral arms, about ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

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What made the pulses puzzling to the astronomers was that they came in the form of both radio waves and X-rays. The discovery marks the first time that such objects, called long-period transients, ...

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - (Fixes distance in paragraph 6, 2.5 million light-years instead of 2.5 billion) The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...