For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

More recent work, however, casts doubt on the certainty that the two galaxies will clash, eventually forming a single, ...

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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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study found that there was only a 2% probability of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding. Photo by NASA ESA Z.

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 ...

(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 ...