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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Andromeda, the nearest galaxy of a size similar to the Milky Way’s, has long been thought to be on course to collide and ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

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

New data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created uncertainty in the theory that the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide and merge.

"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 ...