Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological dance. Astronomers have long known that Andromeda is on ...

Four new Mass Effect books will be published by Titan Books and will fill in the gap between the original trilogy and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Some of the books will serve as prequels and as sequels, ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the ...

Andromeda is a large galaxy, much bigger than our Milky Way. Andromeda contains about a trillion stars. Andromeda is moving towards our Milky Way. In billions of years, Andromeda and the Milky Way ...