This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground ...

The Sombrero galaxy has long had a place in astronomical history as an intriguing object. The first written record of this ...

Scientists have long puzzled over a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding, but new, sharper data from the James ...

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

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

We've been told our Milky Way galaxy is hurtling towards an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, ...

In about half the scenarios, the two galaxies pass close but don’t merge, instead continuing a kind of cosmic dance for ...

A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

James Webb telescope helped solve a decade-long mystery about the universe’s expansion rate, shedding new light on the cosmic ...

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