Researchers predict the collision will lead to the creation of a new galaxy nicknamed 'Milkdromeda' THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

The end of the world might not be something we enjoy thinking about, but a new study has provided a terrifying glimpse at what could be in store. Astronomers say there's a 50 per cent chance the ...

Take a good look at the latest image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a huge elliptical galaxy called NGC 474 that lies about 100 million light-years away from us. At about ...

Billions of stars and thousands of galaxies hang out in our cosmic backyard, providing glimmers of light in an endless sea of blackness. Of those galaxies, Andromeda is the largest, brightest and — at ...