So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

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 team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...

But the Large Magellanic Cloud, whose orbit intersects those of the Milky Way and Andromeda, makes it less likely. In short, it's a real "will they, won't they?".

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sure. ... slow orbit around each other—close companions that never quite collide.

The Milky Way was on a collision course with a neighboring galaxy. Not anymore. NASA scientists had forecast an impending crash in four billion years, sending the sun flying ...