For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...

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 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part of the Milky Way, everything changed in 1923 when Edwin Hubble identified ...

Three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Main A 100,000 light-year separation leads to a collision (Bottom left) At 500,000 light-years, dark matter provides friction that ...

“The extra mass of Andromeda’s satellite galaxy M33 pulls the Milky Way a little bit more towards it. However, we also show that the LMC pulls the Milky Way off the orbital plane and away from ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

Previous research into the impending merger assumed that Andromeda’s transverse motion was small, making the potential for a Milky Way merger much higher. But the newest findings suggest otherwise.

The LMC itself is an excellent example of how this works. “The LMC is already so close to the Milky Way that it is losing its orbital energy, and unlike [Andromeda], it is guaranteed to merge with the ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

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 ...