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 the ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor to the Milky Way, becomes prominently visible in the night sky during ...

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 ...

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky.

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky ...

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 ...