Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding is less than previously ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated." That's the conclusion ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

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

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Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.