Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will merge with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy within the next 5 billion years. However, a new simulation suggests the chance of this clash happening comes down to a coin flip — at least, within the next 10 billion years.
"I would say that the popular narrative is diminished, but not eliminated," Manasvi Lingam, an astrobiologist at Florida Institute of Technology who was not involved with the new study, told Space.com.
