(CNN) -- Astronomers predict that in about four billion years, the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy is our largest and closest neighbor in the ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...

There’s more to galaxies than meets the eye, and now astronomers have mapped out a huge invisible region of the galaxy next door. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have detailed the size and ...

A new study found that there was only a 2% probability of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding. Photo by NASA ESA Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI T. Hallas and A. Mellinger May 30 (UPI) ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic ...

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 ...

There's a 50% chance that the predicted head-on collision will end in a galactic merger, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes For decades, astronomers have predicted that, in approximately ...

Astronomers found the telltale signs of the crash by studying the composition and motion of hundreds of stars in the galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...