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

The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds. Yet while those odds appear daunting, the new finding suggests the catastrophic ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of ... naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda ...

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, so we won’t feel a thing.

Our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, is moving towards the Milky Way galaxy at an alarming rate of 110 kilometers per second.

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda ... of the Milky Way. Hubble’s work opened the door ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way ... big signature we can compare using our latest ...