Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. Thanks For Reading!

There will be no life on Earth at this time — increasing solar luminosity will have eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter. However ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast ...

The Milky Way’s future holds a terrifying possibility—a collision with its neighbor that could rip apart stars, planets, and perhaps even Earth. The chaos would be nothing short of cosmic ...

a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away – too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.

a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away—too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars, and is spread across roughly 2.5 billion ... Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably around the same time many billions of ...