In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

In about 4.5 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. While it sounds like a cosmic ...

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

Andromeda also gobbled up M32p, once the third-largest galaxy behind Andromeda and the Milky Way and considered the Milky Way's long-lost sibling. It was at least 20 times larger than any galaxy ...

While the Triangulum galaxy’s gravitational influence conspired to bring the Milky Way and Andromeda together, the LMC had a repellent effect. And when all four danced together, the odds of an ...

What does the future hold? Ultimately that’s determined by gravity. Our Milky Way galaxy is destined to collide with our closest large neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in about five billion years.

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the largest member of the Milky Way’s gang of galactic neighbors, known as the Local Group. With around a trillion suns worth of mass, Andromeda’s gravitational ...

The spiral Andromeda galaxy is our closest neighbor, sitting 2.5 million light-years away. The consensus was that after circling ever closer for billions of years, the two galaxies would collide.

The Andromeda Galaxy is, officially, a monster. Astronomers studying our next-door neighbor have discovered that the huge spiral galaxy has quite the cannibalistic past. On two separate occasions ...

The Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy 4.5 billion years from now — and new research shows our neighbor has a violent past of cannibalism.

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is our largest galactic neighbor. It sits approximately 2.5 million light-years away NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer/JPL-Caltech/NASA ...

The closest galaxy to our own is the majestic Andromeda galaxy, a collection of a trillion stars located a “mere” 2 million light years away. New research ...