Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

The universe might not meet its end for another quinvigintillion years, but our galaxy's fate teeters on a far less certain line.New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and ...

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

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

What does the Milky Way look like?. Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The ...

Milky Way's Chance of Colliding With Galaxy Billions of Years From Now? New Study Puts Odds at 50-50 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

While good news for the Milky Way galaxy, the latest forecast may be moot for humanity. “We likely won’t live to see the benefit," lead author Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki said in ...

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our galaxy seem greatly exaggerated," the Finnish-led team wrote in a study appearing in Nature Astronomy. While good news for the Milky Way ...