Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. There is a whole lot of merging going on. If that doesn’t ring ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — From city streets to state highways, the gripe about merging on the roads is heard often. Oregon and Washington's departments of transportation want drivers to zipper merge to keep ...

See a "lane closed ahead" sign coming up? Your instinct might be to immediately and politely switch over to the open lane. You might look over in annoyance at the car zooming past in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS — You might be merging incorrectly ...

Editor's note: This content was originally published in 2016. We all recognize the jerks on the road when it comes time to merge. A construction project has narrowed the number of open lanes, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. But there's another class of event that definitely exists in the ...