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

Milky Way Collision with Andromeda No Longer a Sure Thing, New Research Surprises Scientists For a long time, astronomers ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new ...

"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 ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

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

An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy? It's a common question because, for many years, astronomers have ...

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

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