Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

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

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...

Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries and shows how massive stars shape galaxies.

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