The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

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 ...

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and are visible from the Southern Hemisphere without a telescope, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

It's only the third time that experts have spotted an object in the Milky Way that's come from a different solar system. Find ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 ( About DOIs ).

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...