A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Also known as Andromeda, the Milky Way’s most immediate neighbor is about 2.5 million light-years away, and provides an excellent option for studying how spiral galaxies form and evolve over time.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new research suggests the future of our cosmic home is more uncertain than ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how we understand our galaxy’s shape and evolution.

Milky Way has 50-50 chance of colliding with galaxy billions of years from now It turns out that a looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen, after all.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy is so detailed ...

The supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 view from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the expanding remains ...