At the heart of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years from Earth, stars race around an object that emits no light of its ...

The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...

The Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation during its history, according to new research that helps ...

(Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Black holes are sneaky. Unless they light up their surroundings ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. Reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

Fireworks may not be the only light show this 4th of July weekend (and beyond.) The darkest California skies may deliver ...

A dramatic collision between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy around 10 billion years ago may have completely changed the ...

Don Pettit shared that the image is part of a newly released archive containing 1.2 million RAW image files collected during a recent mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Vast cosmic collisions over tens of billions of years have shaped our galaxy into the Milky Way that we see in the night sky ...

A potential dark galaxy — one made primarily of dark matter — may have been spotted in the local universe. Dark galaxies are theoretical, starless systems whose discovery could help astronomers better ...