"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal ... will change," Dodson-Robinson said. Andromeda would also gradually become a dominant, ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, the Milky Way’s mass is about 1.5 trillion solar masses ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has finally completed a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way's closest cosmic companion ... scientists believed that all the stars in the night sky belonged to a single ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Astronomers suspect Andromeda had a major collision with another galaxy relatively recently, perhaps 2 to 5 billion years ago. The Milky Way, on the other hand, probably hasn't had a run-in with ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually ... but when this galactic war happens, Earth's night sky will look like nothing any human being has ever seen ...

Chinese astronomers have compiled the most comprehensive catalogue to date of the Andromeda Galaxy, known as Messier 31 (M31), utilizing data from China's Large Sky ... to the Milky Way, belonging ...