For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the Milky Way ...

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 believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

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

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

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

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...

Stunning images of the Milky Way have been captured over the Cornish coast by an amateur photographer. Lee Nuttall, 52, was ...

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...