Further studies predicted that Andromeda's eventual collision with our Milky Way was inevitable within the next 5 billion years — a process that would see our solar system catapulted to an outer ...

A new research effort supports the idea that the Milky Way is headed for a massive collision, and when that happens it could dramatically affect our Solar System and perhaps even Earth itself.

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, is a treasure trove of stars and cosmic mysteries. Thanks to ...

If that’s the case, then the Milky Way and Andromeda, thought to be on a collision course in about four billion years, could already be interacting. The headline finding from the research is ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Milky Way Get the best tech ... There's a 50% chance that the predicted head-on collision will end in a galactic merger, according to a new study. We take it for granted that all stars eventually ...

Younger stars tend to be born in the region of the galaxy called the thin disk, and tend to orbit the center of the Milky Way in roughly the same direction. Older stars, belonging to the region ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...