Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this ...

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

While previous research forecast it to occur roughly 4-4.5 billion years from now, a new study that uses recent observational ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

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

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