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

For years, scientists, textbooks, and museums have told us that our beautiful home, the Milky Way, is on a crash course with ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

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.

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. “I would expect that there is a very high probability that they will ...

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 ...

Though less frequent, galaxy mergers are still happening all the time, Kim said. Even our own Milky Way is expected to merge with the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years, but the study team ...