A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

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

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, ...

has unveiled significant insights into the Milky Way: a magnetized galactic halo. This discovery challenges previous models of our galaxy's structure and evolution. Researchers have identified ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

Astronomers have detected, in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits, a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy – almost halfway to a ...

The stars are in the Milky Way’s halo, a shroud of stars that surrounds ... Earendel was magnified by a factor of thousands by a galaxy cluster named WHL0137-08, which allowed the 12.9-billion ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own ...