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

While excessive heat primarily affected Canada, the resulting smoke and poor air quality highlight how climate-driven events ...

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

Once seen as inevitable within 10 billion years, the odds are now a coin flip — and the sun will expand to engulf Earth ...

By Dean Murray Our galaxy may not collide with its neighbor after all, suggests new research. For over a century, astronomers ...

A new study challenges predictions our home galaxy the Milky Way will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in 5 billion years.

The Andromeda galaxy, about 2.5 million light-years away, moves fast. At 110 kilometres per second, it heads towards our ...

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

Astronomers have long believed that the Milky Way galaxy may collide head-on with its largest neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, in about 4.5 billion years. But a new study shows the cosmic clash, named ...

Recent findings suggest the previously predicted collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not occur, ...

Air quality is taking a hit in parts of the central and eastern United States as smoke from out-of-control wildfires in Canada pours south – but that isn’t the only thing millions of people will ...