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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...