A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million light-years away from us. This discovery, named Andromeda XXXV, could well shake ...

Don’t Miss the Full Video Story Below Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with ...

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there’s a whole “will they or won’t they” thing going on. In 2012 scientists published their results of Hubble Space Telescope observations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...

Our nearest major galactic neighbor is a cosmic cannibal. And it's heading this way eventually. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the largest member of the Milky Way’s gang of galactic neighbors, known as the Local Group. With around a trillion suns worth of mass, Andromeda’s gravitational influence ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel — about 2.5 million light-years — but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.