Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ).

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

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in ... Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once," NASA reported.

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