Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a vital tool for understanding the world. Now, as interest in space exploration ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

A giant elliptical galaxy formed after the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as hypothetically seen from Earth. Credit: NASA These changes in the sky, of course, wouldn't be rapid.

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

While Earth is located about 26,000 light-years from what's known as the galactic center, the outer portions of the Milky Way are even further, at about 58,000 light-years from our galaxy's ...

However, unlike most spiral galaxies, M33 lacks a central bulge, which would otherwise house a supermassive black hole. As a ...

Late August is a great time to observe the dazzling core of our galaxy, and with the ... people across the Earth could look up and see the Milky Way, provided it was the right time of year ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...