Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with our closest major neighbor the Andromeda galaxy, is moving toward a future collision. These are not small systems ...

At a distance of 2.5 million light years from the Milky Way, it’s hard to believe that Andromeda is our closest neighbouring galaxy. But despite the huge distance between these two elliptical entities ...

A pair of sibling dwarf galaxies is having a gravitationally charged squabble in our cosmic backyard, and it will likely end with one ripping the other in half, a new study suggests. The surprising ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of ...

Researchers have developed a new simulation to recreate the initial year of our galaxy. The work takes us back to cosmic dawn, the moment a hundred or so million years after the B ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows a possible view from Earth of the early stages of a predicted merger billions of years from now between ...