Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion ... Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, Nat Geo Image Collection At 2.5 million light ...

Our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy have long thought to ... Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images “The fate of our galaxy is still completely open,” the study ...

"While some earlier works had focused on the interaction between the Milky Way, Andromeda, and the Triangulum galaxy, we also include the effect of the LMC. "Although its mass is only around 15% of ...

The “fossil” galaxy that the team discovered has a high concentration of old star... American space agency NASA on Sunday shared the "largest-ever" image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by ...

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More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy ... open image in gallery This graphic shows three future scenarios for an encounter between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.

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In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future ... They found that the effects of the neighboring Triangulum galaxy increased the likelihood of a merger between the Milky Way and ...