(CNN) -- Astronomers predict that in about four billion years, the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy is our largest and closest neighbor in the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

The Andromeda galaxy will inevitably collide with our own Milky Way. Will that be the end? The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide.

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 is ...

A decades-old mystery about the Andromeda galaxy might have just been solved. The galaxy's central supermassive black hole is orbited by star clusters in a peculiar formation, and researchers now ...

Astronomers predict that in about four billion years, the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy is our largest and closest neighbor in the universe.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an ...

Our galactic neighbor the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with our own Milky Way galaxy, according to new observations by a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Also called ...

A galaxy is a massive collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. Galaxies have four basic components: the nucleus which is in the center where ...