The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds. Yet while those odds appear daunting, the new finding suggests the catastrophic ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan MitchellMaricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of ... naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda ...

the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda ... of the Milky Way. Hubble’s work opened the door ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of ... naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda ...

The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way ... big signature we can compare using our latest ...