Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Keep an eye out for June’s full strawberry moon, which will appear low in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the Milky Way ...

Milky Way Collision with Andromeda No Longer a Sure Thing, New Research Surprises Scientists For a long time, astronomers believed the Milky Way and its nearby galactic sibling, Andromeda, were set on ...

The best news? Viewers in prime dark sky locations don’t need high-tech telescopes or even binoculars to stargaze this summer ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...