Andromeda is about 2.5 million light-years from Earth and is the largest galaxy in the Local Group, which also includes the Milky Way and about 30 smaller galaxies.

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

Both galaxies can be visible in the night sky: The Milky Way, which stretches across the night sky from the constellations Cassiopeia to Cygnus, and the Andromeda Galaxy appears above this 3000 ...

The Andromeda galaxy, the closest neighbour to our own Milky Way, has been growing by scooping up stars from smaller surrounding galaxies, a Canadian-led team of astronomers has found.

'Now, there is a chance that we could avoid this fate entirely.' At 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the Milky Way's nearest major galaxy.

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years.

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Credit: S. Fatigoni et al (2021) It took 66 hours of observation and consistent data analysis for the researchers to map the galaxy with high sensitivity. They were then able to estimate the rate of ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On a clear night, some stars of the galaxy can be seen from Earth.

After factoring in the gravitational pull of Local Group galaxies and running 100,000 simulations using new data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, the team found there is about a 50% chance ...