THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The study suggests Sagittarius A* likely formed through a merger with another black hole, explaining its spin and ...

or a planet like Earth, may look like the view depicted below: the bright center of an enormous elliptical galaxy. A giant elliptical galaxy formed after the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda ...

The oldest continents in our galaxy may have arisen 5 billion years before Earth ... in the Milky Way harboring alien life even more advanced than our own. Astrobiologists think a planet needs ...

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

The biggest hole formed from a collapsed star in the Milky Way Galaxy resides 2,000 light years away from Earth in the Aquila constellation. Researchers spotted the black hole when they noted the ...

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the origins of supermassive black holes—enormous objects found at the center of most ...

The discovery of an Earth-mass planet around a white dwarf based on gravitational microlensing could offer clues to the ...