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

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

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

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

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

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

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...

While Earth is located about 26,000 light-years from what's known as the galactic center, the outer portions of the Milky Way are even further, at about 58,000 light-years from our galaxy's ...

Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.

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

The jets consist of electrons, positrons, and magnetic fields accelerated to nearly the speed of light, resulting from the ...