For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the Milky Way ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers say that a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be a forgone conclusion and “we could avoid this ...

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