In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

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

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

The Milky Way-Andromeda collision has been predicted by scientists for years, occurring in an estimated timeframe of about ...

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

Once seen as inevitable within 10 billion years, the odds are now a coin flip — and the sun will expand to engulf Earth ...

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

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...

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