An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 ( About DOIs ).

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

(CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912 ...

The computer model also makes use of new mass estimates for other galaxies within the Local Group—a galactic group that hosts the Milky Way and Andromeda, among others.

While the team didn’t model a merger between the LMC and the Milky Way in detail, they found a “virtual certainty” that a merger between the two galaxies will occur within the next 2 billion years, ...

Astrophysicists explore our galaxy's magnetic turbulence in unprecedented detail using a new computer model Date: May 13, 2025 Source: University of Toronto ...

In one possible scenario, the smaller Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) misses the action during the initial smashup; if so, M33 may later merge with the result of the Milky Way-Andromeda collision, dubbed ...