ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story.

The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies that scientists believed was inevitable has a much lower probability than previously thought. The Associated Press reported Monday that ...

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sure by Ruby Wright, Alexander Rawlings, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...

If the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies did collide, the merger would be strong enough to throw the sun into a new region in space, wrote NASA in 2012, when astronomers predicted this crash was a ...

Calling all stargazers, here’s a summertime treat that you don’t want to miss. The Milky Way is now visible from the UAE, meaning there’s no excuse not to catch a glimpse of the galaxy. Becoming ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...