For more than a decade, scientists have suspected our Milky Way galaxy is destined for a head-on collision with the Andromeda ...

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

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

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

Astronomers say that a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be a forgone conclusion and “we could avoid this ...

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about ... Confirming if a nearby dwarf galaxy is a Milky Way satellite involves ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy.

Hypervelocity stars are going so fast that they can't sustain that kind of stable orbit, says Han, which means they are basically flying out of the galaxy. "They're just on their way out.

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies. Astronomers are shocked to find our galaxy's nearest neighbor is being ...