The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

The most recent nearby supernova, SN 1987A, was in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way’s youngest known supernova is ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic ...

This view of dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud is possible thanks to Hubble's cameras, such as the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) that collected the observations for this image. WFC3 ...

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

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