A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered compelling evidence that a cloud–cloud ...

A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks. A ...

There is a huge cloud of gas on a collision course with our galaxy — but luckily, that won’t happen for another 30 million years. As large as the constellation Orion, the sulphur-filled cloud is ...

Mark your epochal calendars, because 30 million years from now, a massive billow of gas called Smith’s Cloud is due to crash into the Milky Way, according to a video released on Friday by NASA. First ...