Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

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

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

Astronomers have identified an extraordinary cosmic pattern in our celestial neighborhood: a stream of dwarf galaxies ...

The galactic system called Arp 299 is made up of two galaxies in the middle of a merger, and NASA used its Chandra X-Ray Observatory in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope to capture ...

Spiral galaxies are often considered too delicate to support the kind of extreme black hole activity seen in this galactic system, Joydeep Bagchi, an astrophysicist at Christ University in India ...

Virgin Galactic reported a quarterly loss of $134 ... it experienced an accident during an uncrewed flight of its New Shepard system last September. New Shepard has not flown since.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure ...