For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...

The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy ...

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

Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars. A galaxy’s central black hole and its slow, long-term ...

For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...

Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they ...

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

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position ...

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who ...

The Milky Way’s future is tied to Andromeda, the massive galaxy slowly moving toward us. Over billions of years, the ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a fairly large one in our part of the universe. In part, its size is thanks to several minor ...

New research suggests the Milky Way's disc flipped after a head-on collision with Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus. The finding may ...