Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

the new finding suggests the catastrophic collision is far less likely than previously thought. Located roughly 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda (M31) galaxy is approaching our Milky ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Though galaxy collisions are normal events and NASA suspects this collision is inevitable ... to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging to the Local Group cluster. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming ...

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 ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 ... our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that galaxies are mostly empty space ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Our own Milky Way is headed for a collision of its own. In around four billion years the Milky Way is expected to collide with the Andromeda galaxy. You have to assume that by that point mankind ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

Specifically, all but one of Andromeda's satellites lie within 107 degrees of the line pointing towards the Milky Way, a region covering only 64% of the host galaxy's surroundings. Until now ...