An illustration of the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger For decades, astronomers have predicted that, ...
An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - NASA/JPL-Caltech A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its ...
Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...
In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the University of Queensland have provided insights into the likely fate of our galaxy ...
A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...
For decades, astronomers have said of our Milky Way galaxy is headed for an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, Andromeda, in approximately 4.5 billion years. This collision, ...
There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...
The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, according to researchers, who say that a new simulation has found a 50% chance ...
Composite color image of the interacting galaxy cluster El Gordo, showing X-ray light from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue, optical data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy ...
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, ...
A collision of two massive clusters of galaxies when the Universe was half its current age should not have happened according to the standard theory of cosmology, says a new study by an international ...