The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy. Cultures all around the world have stories ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches across the night sky? That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains ...

A visualization of our Milky Way galaxy, seen edge-on ... we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the crowding of stars is so dense that the typical spiral ...

The poll started with 22 amazing night sky phenomena in the first round ... What we're seeing is the galactic centre of the barred spiral Milky Way galaxy that we reside in, which contains ...

THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The next two largest are the Triangulum galaxy (M33), which is about 2.7 million light-years from the Milky Way (and only 700,000 light-years from Andromeda; they lie close together in the night ...

The Milky Way is the galaxy our solar system calls home. For thousands of years, the Milky Way's beauty and wonder have inspired legendary stories and curious astronomers gazing at the night sky. Much ...

NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother ... DECam to construct the most extensive 3D map of the night sky ever made. Cerro Tololo is also home to the Vera ...

A European Space Agency (ESA) telescope has discovered two ancient 'threads' of stars that wove together to form our home - the Milky Way. ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars ...