the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same ...