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.

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 ...

Astronomers have long believed that our Milky Way will eventually collide with the Andromeda galaxy. A new study suggests that we might escape that fate. The spiral Andromeda galaxy is our closest ...

An illustration of the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger For decades, astronomers have predicted that, ...

A galaxy is a massive collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. Galaxies have four basic components: the nucleus which is in the center where ...

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 ...