Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Andromeda clearly has had a more active merger history than the Milky Way, and we can see that in the velocity plane ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...