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

(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 ...

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 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 ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy will inevitably collide with our own Milky Way. Will that be the end? The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide.

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) ...

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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 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 universe.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an ...