The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

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

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

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 ).

For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...

But the Large Magellanic Cloud, whose orbit intersects those of the Milky Way and Andromeda, makes it less likely. In short, it's a real "will they, won't they?".

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. But new ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We are approaching Andromeda at roughly 250,000 miles per hour, and scientists have ...

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sure. ... slow orbit around each other—close companions that never quite collide.

Milky Way will be visible in May, over Memorial Day weekend, across US: When to see our galaxy Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant till ...