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

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

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

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

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

There is only a 50 percent chance of this happening even in the next 10 billion years, according to study by UK and ...

For years, scientists, textbooks, and museums have told us that our beautiful home, the Milky Way, is on a crash course with ...

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

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

The Milky Way-Andromeda collision has been predicted by scientists for years, occurring in an estimated timeframe of about ...

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