Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Astronomers have long believed that our Milky Way will eventually collide with the Andromeda galaxy. A new study suggests that we might escape that fate. The spiral Andromeda galaxy is our closest ...

FARGO — Go outside on a clear night in early winter and look up. Everything you can see — all the stars, the planets, the shooting stars, the northern lights — is contained within the Milky Way galaxy ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

The first impending rendezvous involves two bright planets in our evening skies. Venus and Jupiter are rushing to each other in the low southwestern sky toward the end of sunset. You need to have a ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide in about 4 billion years. Most stars will not collide due to vast distances between them. The galaxies' central black holes will eventually merge. Our ...

Everything in the universe is just energy, it appears that the creator of this universe has a strong point to make regarding that- the standing wave represents the electrical potential in space....” — ...