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

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Sawala’s international team relied on the latest observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the ... if not sooner. For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

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

More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion ...

A NASA telescope has cast doubt over the theory that our Milky Way galaxy is on a collision course with our cosmic neighbour ...

If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope ... Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s most ...