After about 5 billion years, the Milky Way will be no more. Our galaxy is set to collide with our neighbor Andromeda to create the so-called Milkomeda galaxy. Astronomer Lauranne Lanz of the ...

After its first close pass, Andromeda is tidally stretched out. The Milky Way, too, becomes warped. Image released May 31, 2012. (NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, predicted to merge in approximately 5 billion years, forming a new galaxy dubbed Milkomeda. Supercomputer simulations suggest this ...

Astronomers say that a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be a forgone conclusion and “we could avoid this fate entirely.” NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system might get booted from the suburbs to the boondocks of our galaxy when the Milky ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its nearest large neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), are on a collision course. Billions of years from now, the merger will transform the structure of both galaxies ...

What's the size of the Milky Way galaxy? Learn how, depending on your definition, the size can change.

Newly forming stars glow fiery bright in this infrared image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by the European Space Agency's Herschel spacecraft. The galaxy's spiral structure, which is similar to that ...

While astronomers are largely baffled by the question of how the universe began, they should probably hurry up and figure it out. In the far future, most of the evidence will be long gone, a new study ...

Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy as we know it will cease to exist. Our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy, researchers announced today ...

(Space.com) Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy as we know it will cease to exist. Our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy, researchers ...