With the interactions of the four largest galaxies inside the local group (the Milky Way, Andromeda, the Triangulum galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud) taken into account, the researchers found ...

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 ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy ... colliding with its neighbor Andromeda. However, a new analysis of a more distant galaxy is hinting at another dramatic ...

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging ... providing insights into its overall structure and ...

Individual stars likely won't crash into each other because ... the combined galaxy an elliptical galaxy rather than a spiral one like the Milky Way and Andromeda. The merger could also heat ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major ... managed to hold onto gas into later epochs.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

The majority opinion among astronomers was that everything our telescopes could see was organized into ... shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in ... likely tug the Sun into a new orbit, dragging Earth and the other planets with it. But even though the Milky Way and Andromeda each have ...

offering a glimpse into the early stages of the universe. By stud... Recent research has cast doubt on the certainty of the Milky Way-Andromeda galaxy collision, suggesting the event may not be as ...