The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide. The findings, described in July in the ...

CNN — A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 ...

How is it that galaxies merge and collide but the universe is expanding and everything is moving away from everything else?

A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This ...