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 ...

There could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, according to a new study. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports.

Black holes are more common than you may think. There’s even one in our galaxy. Close enough for scientists to actually observe its destructive nature. Produced by Kevin Reilly and Rebecca ...

the most distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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