Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

As luck (or, in fact, proximity and gravity) would have it, astronomers soon figured out that Andromeda is likely on a ...

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor ... However, a new study has revealed a stunning twist to that future tale: The collision may have already begun right under our noses.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... then the Milky Way and Andromeda, thought to be on a collision course in about four billion ...

"This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which resembles the stripped-down core of a once-spiral ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more ... us more about this cosmic collision. Any potential findings ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy ...