Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

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.

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.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

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 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 ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

This good news for the Milky Way galaxy will mean little to any of us. "Proclamations of the impending demise of our galaxy seem greatly exaggerated,” scientists said. Skip to content ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the solar system with it.

Taking all of this into account, we found that in about half of the simulated scenarios, the Milky Way and Andromeda do not merge at all within the next 10 billion years. What happens if they do ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are part of a cluster of about 100 galaxies, held together by gravity, known as the "local group." For more than a century, scientists have known Andromeda is creeping ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...