Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

While the Triangulum galaxy’s gravitational influence conspired to bring the Milky Way and Andromeda together, the LMC had a repellent effect. And when all four danced together, the odds of an ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

Gravity is pulling more than just stars together - it’s dragging entire galaxies into violent encounters. The Milky Way is currently absorbing the much smaller Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, and the ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0.2 percent probability that Earth will be involved in a planetary collision ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy colliding in the next 10 billion years. The study used observations from the ...

The collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda, long considered inevitable, might ultimately not occur. Recent simulations challenge this prediction, opening new perspectives on our galaxy's fate.

Bottom: A 100,000 light-year separation leads to a collision. Credit: NASA/ESA via AP It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...