The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

This stunning image shows the full view of the Milky Way from the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists stitched together the enormous image from more than 700 observations by the APEX telescope in ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

The second of three images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is a new and wonderful ... the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen ...

Summer is the best time to see the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere without a telescope. The key is to find clear, dark skies on moonless nights. When you purchase through links on our site ...