Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in ...

Ruby Wright receives funding from the Forrest Research Foundation. Alexander Rawlings receives funding from the University of Helsinki Research Foundation and the European Research Council.

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. Researchers have long thought that the Milky ...

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The Andromeda galaxy, left, is about to collide with part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, in a hypothetical merger scenario. Credit: NASA illustration "Based on the best available data ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." A titanic cosmic collision between the Milky Way and its closest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda, may not be ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For years, astronomers have believed that the fate of the Milky Way was tied to our ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA’s Hubble and the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescopes to simulate how the Milky Way and Andromeda will ...

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 is ...