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

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...

The study still indicates a small chance, around 2 per cent, of a direct collision between Milky Way and Andromeda in 4 to 5 ...

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

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