The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Until now, thin and thick disks have only been identified in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. It has been impossible with previous telescopes to distinguish the thin edge of a distant galaxy when ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

A supernova’s blast can either heat and scatter gas clouds, halting star formation, or compress them to spark new stars, while enriching the space with heavy elements.

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known by many ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

Astronomers have spotted a massive, highly active spiral galaxy from the early Universe that sheds new light on how galaxies like our own Milky Way take shape. This ancient galaxy features a bright ...

The probability of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion years is now estimated at 50%, lower and farther in the future than previous predictions.

New study finds that the Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with neighboring galaxy Andromeda Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy ...