THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way. Astronomers anticipate such a cosmic ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

Space is really really big. Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy. We know ...

The study suggests Sagittarius A* likely formed through a merger with another black hole, explaining its spin and ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

NGC 5668, observed by Hubble, showcases rapid star formation and frequent supernovae, distinguishing it from our own galaxy.

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...