The world has gotten an early preview of the Rubin Observatory's first images, which include stunning snaps of spiraling ...

For over four billion years, the Moon has been orbiting Earth — but where did it come from? The Moon has been a constant ...

Experiments suggest moths use the Milky Way to orientate themselves — plus, evidence that humans expanded into new ecosystems ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.

Astronomers studying rare star-forming galaxies reveal how the chaotic past of the universe may mirror the future of the ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new ...

This scientific illustration of the Earth's horizon 3.75 billion years in the future shows Andromeda filling the field of view and the Milky Way beginning to show distortion due to tidal pull from ...

Milky Way Collision with Andromeda No Longer a Sure Thing, New Research Surprises Scientists For a long time, astronomers believed the Milky Way and its nearby galactic sibling, Andromeda, were set on ...

Look up at the sky, any reasonably dark night. Hundreds of stars are visible, at any one time, to the naked eye. Nearly all ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

There is only a 50 percent chance of this happening even in the next 10 billion years, according to study by UK and ...