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

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

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

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

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

While previous research forecast it to occur roughly 4-4.5 billion years from now, a new study that uses recent observational ...

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

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

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 ...

New researchpublished in Nature Astronomychallenges long-held beliefs about the fate of the Milky Way and its closest large ...