The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds. Yet while those odds appear daunting, the new finding suggests the catastrophic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

then the Milky Way and Andromeda, thought to be on a collision course in about four billion years, could already be interacting. The headline finding from the research is that galaxies are far ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward ... that our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that galaxies are mostly empty space," said Roeland van der Marel ...

In about four billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash together Visualization: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, STScI Simulation credit: NASA, ESA, G. Besla, Columbia ...

Chinese astronomers have compiled the most comprehensive catalogue to date of the Andromeda Galaxy, known as Messier 31 (M31), utilizing data from China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...

Recent research has cast doubt on the certainty of the Milky Way-Andromeda galaxy collision, suggesting the event may not be as inevitable as once thought. Traditionally, astronomers have ...

This was the birth of our modern universe of galaxies, so poetically celebrated in Seeing in the Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Have you ever seen a giant galaxy with your own naked eyes? That’s ...