For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

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

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.