New research challenges the idea the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, reshaping our understanding of galactic ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

While previous research forecast it to occur roughly 4-4.5 billion years from now, a new study that uses recent observational ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 ...

In about half the scenarios, the two galaxies pass close but don’t merge, instead continuing a kind of cosmic dance for ...

Our galaxy may not collide with its neighbour after all, suggests new research. For over a century, astronomers believed a ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might have heard that galaxies come in different types, classified based on their shapes. There are elliptical galaxies, which are smooth and featureless ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary ... Although it shows signs of spiral and elliptical galaxies, it does not have the robust star formation that would be found in a galaxy ...