An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

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

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising ...

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

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

Once seen as inevitable within 10 billion years, the odds are now a coin flip — and the sun will expand to engulf Earth ...

When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new object in our Milky Way, which is emitting X-rays and radio waves at the same ...

The Milky Way-Andromeda collision has been predicted by scientists for years, occurring in an estimated timeframe of about ...

“ASKAP J1832–0911 is currently the only LPT detected with (pulsed) X-ray emission — perhaps unsurprisingly, given its extreme ...

Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this ...