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 ...

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.

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

Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, ... He calculated M31’s distance as a prodigious 900,000 light years away, though he underestimated its true distance ...

Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this predicted clash has been dubbed “Milkomeda,” and researchers predicted ...

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.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years in distance. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central reason, the Milky ...