the Triangulum galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud) taken into account, the researchers found the chances of a Milky Way-Andromeda collision were reduced to a coin flip. And if the merger does ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

egg-shaped galaxy. But what would happen to the stars and planets of the Milky Way? And what would be the destiny of Earth?

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have discovered a massive cloud of gas that's on a collision course with our home galaxy, the Milky Way. What will happen when it slams into our galaxy ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive ...

The Milky Way is destined to collide with a supermassive black hole from a nearby galaxy in 2 billion years! Once the Large Magellanic Cloud collides with the Milky Way, its black hole will drift ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

The newly discovered ring galaxy is seven times closer than anything ... low in mass – a few thousand million Suns or less than 1% of the Milky Way – so our discovery shows that collision rings can ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered what could very well be the Milky Way’s long-lost twin.