How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds. Yet while ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

then the Milky Way and Andromeda, thought to be on a collision course in about four billion years, could already be interacting. The headline finding from the research is that galaxies are far ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward ... that our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that galaxies are mostly empty space," said Roeland van der Marel ...

and a similar collision will inevitably hit closer to home. At some point in the distant future, our own Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, but we have a few ...

This was the birth of our modern universe of galaxies, so poetically celebrated in Seeing in the Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Have you ever seen a giant galaxy with your own naked eyes? That’s ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is very important to the history of astronomicaldiscovery. Less than a hundred years ago, the Milky Way Galaxy was all we thought there was to the universe.