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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

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