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 ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

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 ...

See that bright object in the sky? That’s Andromeda – the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way and the most distant thing ...

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) ...

(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 ...

Strange cosmic events are unfolding, as nearly all of Andromeda's satellite galaxies align toward the Milky Way, defying our ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way are on an inevitable collision course, driven by their mutual gravitational attraction, with the merger anticipated to commence in approximately 4 billion ...

The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, according to researchers, who say that a new simulation has found a 50% chance ...

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 ...