A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

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

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

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

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...