Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

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