Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

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

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

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 Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

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

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

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

For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the Milky Way ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.