It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and simulations is forcing astronomers to admit that many of those origin ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show our home galaxy as a warped, rippling disc that appears to twist and ...