This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last month when scientists announced new ...

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there’s a whole “will they or won’t they” thing going on. In 2012 ...

Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered evidence that galaxy mergers matter. When two galaxies move close, gravity can ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...

Astronomers have used powerful adaptive optics technology at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to reveal the precise locations and environments of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden supermassive black hole inside the famous Antennae galaxies NGC 4038/4039, a pair of colliding galaxies best known for their spectacular bursts of star ...

NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity. This event was captured with ...

Don’t Miss the Full Video Story Below Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with ...

For the first time, astronomers have been able to combine the deepest optical images of the universe, obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, with equally sharp images in the near-infrared part of the ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the cosmos.

It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...