Separated by a distance of around 11 million light-years, these structures are thought to be "shock fronts" resulting from ...

This combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for a Milky Way and Andromeda encounter. Top left: ...

the team found there is about a 50% chance of a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda in the next 10 billion years. There is only about a 2% chance the galaxies will collide in 4 to 5 ...

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

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

New researchpublished in Nature Astronomychallenges long-held beliefs about the fate of the Milky Way and its closest large ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

A galactic pileup 94 million light-years away is giving astronomers a detailed look at how cosmic collisions shape the ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers ...

“A head-on collision is very unlikely, we found a less than 2 percent chance for that,” Sawala said. “In most of the cases that lead to a merger, the two galaxies will indeed fly past each ...