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 ...

New researchpublished in Nature Astronomychallenges long-held beliefs about the fate of the Milky Way and its closest large neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. For decades, astronomers have predicted a ...

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated." That's the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...

An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - NASA/JPL-Caltech A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its ...