Our home galaxy might be larger than we first assumed, astronomers have found. A new model of the Milky Way has revealed that ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the "best-known" black holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud ... and how to pre-order Akshay Kumar’s First Look Poster From Vishnu ...

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

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

By demonstrating the ability for joint observations at the short radio wavelength of 0.87mm, the Event Horizon Telescope has ...

The Andromeda galaxy, moving towards the Milky Way at 110 km/s, might collide with our galaxy in 10 billion years. New research using Gaia and Hubble data suggests that gravitational forces from ...

"I would say that the popular narrative is diminished, but not eliminated." Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will merge with the neighboring ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

However, unlike most spiral galaxies, M33 lacks a central bulge, which would otherwise house a supermassive black hole. As a ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...