For nearly a century, astronomers have been striving to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding. Two main methods ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

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Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...