Three possible encounter scenarios between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Top left: Galaxies M81 and M82. Top right: NGC 6786, a pair of interacting galaxies.

Now, this decade-long belief is being challenged by new research that suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be on a collision course after all. The study, published today in Nature ...

Astronomers previously thought our galaxy could crash into its closest neighbour in 5 billion years. But a new study predicts there's a nearly 50 per cent chance the galaxies won't collide, or it ...

The photo does appear to feature the Andromeda galaxy and a few of its smaller neighbors. However, according to Svoboda, they aren't in the right spot in the sky. Using an online tool called ...

We'll update this post as necessary. On April 15, 2025, a photo posted to social media sites like Facebook and X claimed to show a stunning image of the Andromeda galaxy taken over the Swiss Alps.

That’s because McCarthy recently unveiled a 400-megapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy—our closest galactic neighbor, located 2.5 million light-years away.

This beautiful image of Andromeda galaxy’s core was captured by Spitzer Space Telescope which was retired in 2020. Also known as Messier 31 or M31 is the nearest galaxy to our milky way.

Today, we know the Andromeda galaxy, one of an estimated 6 to 20 trillion galaxies in our universe, is about 2.5 million light years away.

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a 42208 x 9870 pixel panoramic photo created by stitching together 600 images of the Andromeda Galaxy that it has taken over ...

NASA: 'Magnificent' Andromeda galaxy in pictures Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that are brighter than Earth's sun.