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

The Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live, gets its name from its milky-looking texture - which inspired a Greek myth that a ...

Photographer Hayes Scriven captured a rare photo recently that included both the aurora and the Milky Way in the sky near ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

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

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers ...

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

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

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

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

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