"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Andromeda is tidally stretched out following its first close pass by the Milky Way, which is also warped. Illustration by NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger ...

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.

These companion galaxies exert gravitational tugs that change the motions of their hosts. M33 nudges Andromeda slightly toward the Milky Way, increasing the chance of a merger.

Previous research into the impending merger assumed that Andromeda’s transverse motion was small, making the potential for a Milky Way merger much higher. But the newest findings suggest otherwise.

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).

New study puts odds at 50-50 In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation.