The video ranks the biggest cosmic threats to humanity, from rogue planets and black holes to supernovas, gamma ray bursts, ...

Imagine you somehow wake up after 4.5 billion years. When your alarm goes off at 5 am, you step outside because you have made a promise to yourself to get some fresh air first thing in the morning.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

CNN — A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that a violent collision with a smaller galaxy played an important role in shaping the Milky Way as we observe it today. This suspicion was confirmed in 2018, ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the ...

A newly confirmed dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda contains so few stars that automated detection pipelines ignored it entirely — and that invisibility may be precisely what makes it scientifically ...