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

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

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

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

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 Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

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

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

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

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