THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal ... That's because both the Milky Way and Andromeda inhabit a "local group" of galaxies, and two in particular (M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud) may exert ...

Located about 3 million light-years from Earth, the Tucana Dwarf galaxy sits at the far edge of the Local Group of galaxies ...

In fact, the odds of the Milky Way colliding with Andromeda ... pretty large objects in the local group that do have that level of gravitational influence: the galaxy M33, and the Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

While our own galaxy sports remnants of past cannibalism ... possible scenarios for the evolution of the Local Group in which the Milky Way and the Andromeda reside along with several other ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...

NASA's Wide-Field infrared Survey Explorer shows the vast Andromeda galaxy in full. This stunning close-up view of the center of the Andromeda galaxy is taken by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope ...