Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

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Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the United States.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky.

Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all Astronomers ran 100,000 computer simulations using combined Hubble/Gaia space telescope data.