The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, just 2.5 million light-years away, has long captivated astronomers with ...

Our solar system might get booted from the suburbs to the boondocks of our galaxy when the Milky Way merges with its neighbor Andromeda in a few billion years, scientists say.

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light-years away), will collide and eventually merge between 3.9 billion and 5.6 billion years ...

"The solar system will in all likelihood be almost unaffected." A prominent reason why is because space is immensely vast; there are huge distances between the stars, and stars are comparatively tiny.

Andromeda is about 260,000 light-years wide, according to NASA, making it the largest galaxy in the Local Group.However, its mass is roughly comparable to or even less than that of the Milky Way ...

Our galaxy is organized into spiral arms and the Sun is in a branch called the Orion Spur. If we were to be flung farther out, that means our solar system would land just at the fingertips of this ...

But our Solar System will remain intact through it all, even though it won't look quite like it does today. The Sun will continue to get hotter as it ages, boiling our oceans in approximately 1-2 ...

Studying Andromeda, a large galaxy like our own, can also inform us more about the evolution of the Milky Way. Because we live in the Milky Way, it's harder to study — like trying to study an ...

Huge galactic collision could send Earth’s solar system flying into space. ... Still, that's much sooner than the predicted crash of the Milky Way and our nearest galaxy Andromeda, ...

The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses?

Andrew McCarthy has made quite the name for himself over the past few years, revealing detailed shots of the lunar surface, the sun, and even some of our solar system’s planets, like Saturn.

Our solar system might get booted from the suburbs to the boondocks of our galaxy when the Milky Way merges with its neighbor Andromeda in a few billion years, scientists say. New calculations by ...