A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

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

This week in Starwatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer — Sagittarius the Archer, one of the zodiac constellations. Not only is ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

A stargazer has managed to capture a stunning view of the Perseid meteor shower from the South West. Josh Dury used clever ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

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

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...