Astronomers previously believed the Milky Way and Andromeda, its closest spiral neighbor, would collide in about 5 billion years. This merger was expected to create a new galaxy nicknamed 'Milkomeda'.

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy colliding in the next 10 billion years. The study used observations from the ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a long ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy could collide in the next few billion years. KXAN's space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

Updated: Jun 8, 2025 / 03:27 PM CDT (NewsNation) — The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies that scientists believed was inevitable has a much lower probability than previously thought.

Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in our Milky Way galaxy “A head-on collision is very unlikely, we found a less than 2% chance for that,” Sawala said.

“A head-on collision is very unlikely, we found a less than 2% chance for that,” Sawala said. “In most of the cases that lead to a merger, the two galaxies will indeed fly past each other at ...

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