Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

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.

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

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

A groundbreaking study reveals the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not collide after all—simulations show only a 2% ...

The result, announced in a new report publishing in the Astrophysical Journal, marks the latest in a long-running controversy over the Hubble constant, a key measure of the universe's age and ...

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

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

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

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