Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." A titanic cosmic collision between the Milky Way and its closest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda, may not be as ...

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 team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...

Prince Waikiki is hosting a series of free stargazing events every Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. through June and July, where ...

But in our new study published in Nature Astronomy, led by Till Sawala from the University of Helsinki, we find the Milky Way's future might not be as certain previously assumed. By carefully ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...