Today, let's talk about something truly astonishing in the universe — in 3.7 billion years, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are going to collide! This news is absolutely incredible; just ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology.

Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too ...

After several hyper-fast white dwarf stars were discovered, there is now an explanation. The objects are the product of a double star explosion.

The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Marco Ajello is a professor of physics and astronomy at Clemson University in South Carolina, ...

NGC 6914 lies nearly 6,000 light years from Earth. It sits along the Milky Way’s crowded plane where gas, stars and dust ...

Galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe containing galaxies with mixed stellar population types and structures. They inject gas into galaxies, helping them grow and evolve.

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe ...