A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. Reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope provides the first-ever bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have long believed that our Milky Way will eventually collide with the Andromeda galaxy. A new study suggests that we ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescopes to simulate how the Milky Way and Andromeda will evolve ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

The structure of the local universe is surprisingly flat, according to new research, and this cosmic quirk may save our Milky Way from colliding with countless other massive, nearby galaxies — except ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This ...

The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, according to researchers, who say that a new simulation has found a 50% chance ...

There's a 50% chance that the predicted head-on collision will end in a galactic merger, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes For decades, astronomers have predicted that, in approximately ...

An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - NASA/JPL-Caltech Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.