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

Milky Way Collision with Andromeda No Longer a Sure Thing, New Research Surprises Scientists For a long time, astronomers ...

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

Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...

Andromeda, the nearest galaxy of a size similar to the Milky Way’s, has long been thought to be on course to collide and ...

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

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion ...

A new study questions previous Milky Way - Andromeda galaxy collision assumptions. When school textbooks explain the Milky ...

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

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...