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

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

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

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

The study still indicates a small chance, around 2 per cent, of a direct collision between Milky Way and Andromeda in 4 to 5 ...

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." ...

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

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

Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.

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

Until now, it has been assumed that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course. However, they may miss ...