In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy could collide in the next few billion years. KXAN's space expert, ...

Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy Within hours of the catalogue going online, 3,000 users around the world had already started downloading the data, ESA said in a ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

The Milky Way’s disk is around 120,000 light-years across and has at least 100 billion and maybe 400 billion stars. Such ambiguity is normal for astronomy, but it’s also a symptom of galactic ...

How does the Milky Way’s star-making machine work? Glowing knots of gas provide an environment rich in star birth, decorating the arms of M74 (also known as NGC 628). The galaxy’s arms trail ...

Related: The Milky Way will be visible without a telescope this summer. Here are the key nights to watch for. But most astronomers agree that there should be many more, currently unknown ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way may completely miss each by more than 500,000 light-years, meaning no merger. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) The team was able to present different scenarios of what could ...

“We are sitting inside the Milky Way,” says Timo Prusti, Gaia’s project scientist. “It’s like a forest: you see lots of trees, but you don’t know what the forest looks like because you ...