Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

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." ...

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated." That's the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years. That’s essentially a coin ...

This new result differs from the 2012 one because it considers the gravitational effect of an additional galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), alongside the Milky Way, Andromeda and the nearby ...

A merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies would destroy them both, eventually turning both spiral structures into one elongated galaxy, the study authors said. Collisions between other ...

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge with our galaxy in the distant future The Nearest Large Spiral Galaxy ...