With so much ground (or rather space) to cover, it’s no surprise that there are often new developments to learn about space and our galaxy. Here are 35 fascinating facts to get you started. Even ...

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

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

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

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

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

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

The Andromeda galaxy, moving towards the Milky Way at 110 km/s, might collide with our galaxy in 10 billion years. New research using Gaia and Hubble data suggests that gravitational forces from ...