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

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...

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

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

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

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers ...

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

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

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

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

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

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