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Collision likelihood within 5 billion years seen under 2% Milky Way and Andromeda have a similar mass and shape New study assesses influence of Large Magellanic Cloud WASHINGTON — The Milky Way ...

Our heat wave gets going today with highs near 90 and into the low 90s locally. Relatively modest humidity keeps it bearable, for now. What’s next? Sunday through Wednesday look rather brutal and ...

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New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more likely.

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought. Milky Way has 50-50 chance of colliding with neighbor galaxy ...

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 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 ...

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 ).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...