New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’ time. The collision could occur much earlier ...

Billions of years ago, our galaxy experienced a cosmic smash-up that may have completely reshaped the Milky Way’s rotating stellar disk. This ancient galactic collision, now traced back to roughly 11 ...

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic collision. It's the first time we've seen this kind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The twisted galactic disk of NGC 4753 as seen by the Gemini South Telescope. A team of astronomers became a crew of cosmic crash ...

Astronomers say that a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be a forgone conclusion and “we could avoid this fate entirely.” NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T.

Newswise — Dr. Tom Donlon, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a new paper published in the ...

European Southern Observatory astronomers have produced a spectacular new image of the famous Atoms-for-Peace galaxy (NGC 7252). This galactic pile-up, formed by the collision of two galaxies, ...

NGC 3314A and B might look like they are in the midst of a galactic pile-up, but they are in fact separated by tens of millions of light years of void. Their apparent proximity is simply a trick of ...