THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Related: Listen to a symphony for the Milky Way, made from real NASA data (video) Stars in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way float around their galaxy centers in mostly circular orbits.

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way. Astronomers anticipate such a cosmic ...

Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy ...

The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a ... if you know where to look—Andromeda’s great spiral appears as a fuzzy smudge, faint but larger than the ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...