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

It’s June, which means solstice time – and therefore, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest night of the year. That’s a shame, as something else remarkable is set to occur this ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.

They found that the effects of the neighboring Triangulum galaxy increased the likelihood of a merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda, while the Large Magellanic Cloud decreased those chances.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...