The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first cosmic images on 23 June 2025, launching a 10-year sky survey with the world ...

These star clusters, containing as many as 1 million members, evolve over time largely through a gravitational pinball where ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

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

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

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

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

We also included two additional galaxies that influence the future paths of the Milky Way and Andromeda: the Large Magellanic Cloud, a massive satellite galaxy currently falling into the Milky Way, ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.