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 Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

Scientists using radio wavelength data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) spotted a strangely symmetrical sphere located thousands of light-years away. The “sphere” is ...

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

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

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

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring ... ran 100,000 simulations using the latest data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space ...

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

New research challenges the idea the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, reshaping our understanding of galactic ...

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