Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy could collide in the next few billion years. KXAN's space expert, ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

The Milky Way’s disk is around 120,000 light-years across and has at least 100 billion and maybe 400 billion stars. Such ambiguity is normal for astronomy, but it’s also a symptom of galactic ...

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly ...

How does the Milky Way’s star-making machine work? Glowing knots of gas provide an environment rich in star birth, decorating the arms of M74 (also known as NGC 628). The galaxy’s arms trail ...

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Craig, has introduced a more precise map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way. This study, published in The ...

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 ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way may completely miss each by more than 500,000 light-years, meaning no merger. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) The team was able to present different scenarios of what could ...