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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The team spotted the stars in the Milky Way's "halo"—the cloud of stars that envelopes ... star once belonged to its own small, primitive galaxy that was later absorbed by the larger but still ...

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 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 ...

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 ...