An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...

An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." A titanic cosmic collision between the Milky Way and its closest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda, may not be as ...

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

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

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

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and ...