There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

The probability of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion years is now estimated at 50%, lower and farther in the future than previous predictions.

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Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way’s bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. And while our eyes see it in visible light, NASA telescopes observe the galaxy across the spectrum, peering ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are part of a cluster of about 100 galaxies, held together by gravity, known as the "local group." For more than a century, scientists have known Andromeda is creeping ...

Left: An illustration shows a stage in the potential merger between the Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as viewed in Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years. Andromeda (left ...

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 ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.