A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

"I think that the undulating curve represents the Milky Way and could be a representation of the Great Rift — the dark band of dust that cuts through the Milky Way's bright band of diffused ...

It appears to match the Great Rift, which is the band of interstellar dust that seems to bisect the Milky Way. Deepening our view of nut. While Nut was often pictured as the entire Egyptian night sky, ...

The brightest region of the galaxy visible within the Summer Triangle is the Cygnus Star Cloud; also visible is the dark Great Rift, made up of light-blocking dust. Sunrise: 5:32 A.M. Sunset: 8:26 ...

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

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more likely.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

The probability of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion years is now estimated at 50%, lower and farther in the future than previous predictions.

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

New study finds that the Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with neighboring galaxy Andromeda Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy ...

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 ).