In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

It’s nice to think the Milky Way “still has a long, planet-forming future ahead of it.” Galaxy merger mayhem Astronomers witness galaxy mergers happening throughout all of space and time.

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 ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

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 ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide in 4.5 billion years NASA Goddard They said heat from the merger helped create the halo-like configuration we see today, and that a large supply ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...