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

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

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

New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, will converge within the next 10 billion years. Previous analyses have ...

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

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

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

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda. They seemed all but certain the two galaxies were destined to smash in about ...