Astronomers have released an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy obtained with 50 hours of observations using one of ...

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

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

What happens in J0107a echoes across cosmic history. Many modern galaxies, including the Milky Way, bear a central bar. Learning how a barred spiral galaxy takes shape can explain our own galaxy ...

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

Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that ...

Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

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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. But new ...