Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...

"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 ...

What we thought we knew about our galaxy’s fate is about to change. For years, scientists, textbooks, and museums have told us that our beautiful home, the Milky Way, is on a crash course with ...

Two new studies have taken a look at an unusual event in Andromeda, the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, where a giant ...

For years, astronomers have believed that the fate of the Milky Way was tied to our largest neighboring galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy. However, a new study now says that this future Milky Way merger ...