The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.

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 ...

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

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

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

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 ...

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 universe might not meet its end for another quinvigintillion years, but our galaxy's fate teeters on a far less certain line.New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and ...

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.