ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A new research effort supports the idea that the Milky Way is headed for a massive collision, and when that happens it could dramatically affect our Solar System and perhaps even Earth itself.

Further studies predicted that Andromeda's eventual collision with our Milky Way was inevitable within the next 5 billion years — a process that would see our solar system catapulted to an outer ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

Milky Way Get the best tech ... There's a 50% chance that the predicted head-on collision will end in a galactic merger, according to a new study. We take it for granted that all stars eventually ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The Milky Way’s future holds a terrifying possibility—a collision with its neighbor that could rip apart stars, planets, and perhaps even Earth. The chaos would be nothing short of cosmic ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...