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

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

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...

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 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 ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

New research challenges the idea the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, reshaping our understanding of galactic ...

We've been told our Milky Way galaxy is hurtling towards an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, ...

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

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

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.