Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

MORE: Exoplanet discovered in 2020 has the coldest temperatures ever measured, scientists say. The researchers used a technique known as gravitational microlensing -- a method bas ...

Nasa has highlighted that Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn will all be visible this month. Venus will rise about two ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

The team was able to present different scenarios of what could become of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies as they gradually move together. "A head-on collision is very unlikely, we found a ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 (About DOIs).