As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

More recent work, however, casts doubt on the certainty that the two galaxies will clash, eventually forming a single, ...

The video ranks the biggest cosmic threats to humanity, from rogue planets and black holes to supernovas, gamma ray bursts, ...

New research shows how rapidly the Milky Way erases traces of collisions ...

Unusually compared with many galaxies of similar mass, the Milky Way was allowed ample time to recover from the shock of the “sausage merger”. No other cosmic cataclysm appears to have shaken our ...

An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after the Norse god ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. The research, published in Monthly Notices of the ...

However, the Milky Way did not form in isolation. For decades, scientists have suspected that a violent collision with a smaller galaxy played an important role in shaping the Milky Way as we observe ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky Way. Could dark matter be the answer? Reading time 2 minutes For all the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due to a ...

A frame from the Auriga simulations, which study galaxies similar to the Milky Way. Credit must be given to the creator.