Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there’s a whole “will they or won’t they” thing going on. In 2012 ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the galaxy.

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Over the many years I’ve been writing this column, I've rattled off the distances to many celestial objects. I don't often ...

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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) exhibits a rich tapestry of stellar populations encompassing a central bulge, an extended thin and thick disc, and a complex halo studded with streams and shells. Studies of ...

Massive bulge survey: Hubble mapped a vast area in the Milky Way's dense central bulge, cataloging up to 30 million stars for future comparison. Roman mission prep: The data will help Roman identify ...

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

The universe will reach the end of its life 33.3 billion years after the Big Bang, according to the new study. Given it is currently 13.8 billion years old, that leaves us with a little less than 20 ...