Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

As we continue to explore the vast expanse of our Milky Way, discoveries like the black hole swarm in Palomar 5 remind us of the endless wonders that await our curious minds.

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

The star J0927-6335 is moving at a whopping 2,285 kilometers (1,420 miles) per second. That’s equivalent to traveling from New York to Austin in just over one second.

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.. It has grown by consuming other galaxies.Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda.Though galaxy collisions are ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth .

Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface ...

New measurements suggest that the Milky Way galaxy may have a different shape than we thought. Over the past few years, astronomers have increasingly discovered that galaxies seem to come in three ...