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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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