Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend over California when the Milky Way appears in the night ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. ... An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Follow Author. Jun 02, 2025, 11:00am EDT.

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated." That's the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a ...

M33 nudges Andromeda slightly toward the Milky Way, increasing the chance of a merger. Meanwhile, the Large Magellanic Cloud shifts the Milky Way's motion away from Andromeda, reducing the ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

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 ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

According to Sawala, the uncertainty with the greatest effect on merger probability lies in the so-called “proper motion” of Andromeda, which is its motion as it appears on our night sky. This motion ...

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 ...

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 ...