a galaxy), American astronomer Edwin Hubble calculated in 1929 that galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way, All of them, that is, except one — Andromeda. The universe was expanding ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

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 reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years. That's essentially a coin ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring ... ran 100,000 simulations using the latest data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space ...

That's about five times the width of the Milky Way. Sawala acknowledges the irony that with more precise Hubble data, scientists are less sure about what will happen. After all, they've only ...

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

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky ... Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia star-surveying spacecraft to simulate the possible scenarios facing the Milky ...

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope ... The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies that scientists ...