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

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

The knowledge that Andromeda is moving toward the Milky Way is core to our understanding of an expanding universe. Having four years previously figured out that Andromeda — a fuzzy blob to the ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs may have gazed upon a sky subtly different from our familiar blue, according to NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen.

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

At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, our home, is a mysterious supermassive black hole. It’s shrouded in a vale of cosmic dust and gas and that curious spot just got a bit more strange, as experts ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

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 ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new research suggests the future of our cosmic home is more uncertain than ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...