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

Further studies predicted that Andromeda's eventual collision with our Milky Way was inevitable within the next 5 billion years — a process that would see our solar system catapulted to an outer ...

Our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda ... Studies have suggested that the Milky Way owes its shape to collisions with other dwarf ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky ... billion years old. “The way ...

And it's scheduled to collide, head-on, with the Milky Way in approximately 3.75 billion years. Once Andromeda reaches us, a cataclysmic dance lasting over billions of years will follow.

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 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 ...

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 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 ...