Our galaxy may not be destined to end in a fiery collision with the Andromeda galaxy as soon as previously thought. While ...

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

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

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

Astronomers studying rare star-forming galaxies reveal how the chaotic past of the universe may mirror the future of the ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

"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 ...