Dr. Pierre Martin and his team created an animation showing two galaxies colliding more than 440 million years ago.

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the University of Queensland have provided insights into the likely fate of our galaxy ...

Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy as we know it will cease to exist. Our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy, researchers announced today ...

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 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers know that in roughly four billion years the two galaxies will collide and ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new research suggests the future of our cosmic home is more uncertain than ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

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Astronomers have long known that the Andromeda galaxy, aka Messier 31, a swirling city-state of a trillion stars — plus all the accouterments of gas, dust, dark matter and black holes — is rumbling ...