(CNN) -- Astronomers predict that in about four billion years, the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy is our largest and closest neighbor in the ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

There’s more to galaxies than meets the eye, and now astronomers have mapped out a huge invisible region of the galaxy next door. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have detailed the size and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the University of Queensland have provided insights into the likely fate of our galaxy ...

A new study found that there was only a 2% probability of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding. Photo by NASA ESA Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI T. Hallas and A. Mellinger May 30 (UPI) ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...