Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

(NewsNation) — The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies that scientists believed ... and if they don’t come very close, meaning if their distance is more than around 500,000 light-years, ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

Caption. The distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda in 50 simulations. Just slightly more than half of orbits result in a Milky Way - Andromeda collision within 10 billion years.