Day 6 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a galactic collision. This Hubble image features Arp 122, a galaxy that actually comprises two vast galaxies colliding with each other—NGC 6040 ...

One of Earth’s most powerful telescopes has witnessed a massive collision of galaxies sparked by one ... it's not compressing air because it's in space. So it's compressing the medium that ...

A collision with close by galaxy could open the Milky Way galaxy's black hole which could result in our solar system hurling into space. However, this collision could take up to two billion years ...

The event was detected by a space telescope and a NASA observatory A "remarkable" astronomical explosion is thought to have been triggered by the collision ... from a nearby galaxy, was detected ...

A new research effort supports the idea that the Milky Way is headed for a massive collision ... our galaxy in a chaotic, swirling mess that might even throw our Solar System out into space.

This event was captured using the WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain, offering new insights into galactic interactions. The collision triggered a massive ...

"The reason we think that our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that galaxies are mostly empty space," said Roeland van der Marel in a ScienceTV video. Marel is a ...

Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day. Earth-orbit experts ...