The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Many of our favourite sweet treats have been given makeovers ... However, the name didn't come to the UK until 2005. Finally, the Milky Way bar has been a family favourite in the confectionery ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

The band of the Milky Way, fraught with billions of stars, stands high in the southwestern sky in early September.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." In the past, map makers ...

A cosmic train wreck may be looming in our future. The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering 110 kilometers per second. You can already see it ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

The Andromeda galaxy, moving towards the Milky Way at 110 km/s, might collide with our galaxy in 10 billion years. New research using Gaia and Hubble data suggests that gravitational forces from ...