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

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as it hurtles at astonishing speed from outside the Milky Way ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy colliding in the next 10 billion years. The study used observations from the ...

ESA. The Milky Way is still experiencing the effects of this vast, ancient stellar near miss, a story remembered in the current velocities and paths of the stars impacted.

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

The stars of our Milky Way are giving up their secrets to the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft and its stunning new star catalog. ESA's new Gaia galaxy map shines with 1.7 billion stars ...

ESA has published a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way. The data has already ...

Annotated version of the all-sky view of stars in the Milky Way, based on the first year of observations from ESA’s Gaia satellite, from July 2014 to September 2015.

Explore the Milky Way in virtual reality with ESA's Gaia mission. Tour the Milky Way with Gaia Sky, a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualization software that uses ESA's Gaia mission data.

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has released an unprecedented map showing "high-precision measurements" of about 1.7 previously undiscovered billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.