Our galaxy may not be destined to end in a fiery collision with the Andromeda galaxy as soon as previously thought. While ...

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

Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...

This view of dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud is possible thanks to Hubble's cameras, such as the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) that collected the observations for this image. WFC3 ...

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

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

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

scientists examined the motions of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to find it is being ripped apart by the gravitational influence of its larger counterpart, the Large Magellanic ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new ...

The two Magellanic Clouds are known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and they’re located right in our cosmic backyard. They’re a bit over 150,000 light ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and ...