Cosmic Smashup Predicted, Earth to Survive

Short form: Hubble space telescope studies have confirmed that the Andromeda galaxy will plow more or less directly into the Milky Way galaxy (or the other way around, depending on your frame of reference)… in about four billion years. Andromeda would need about six time the lateral motion that it is observed to have in order to miss.

The “Earth to survive” part of the title is kinda odd, as the writer makes it plain that in  4 billion years the sun will have started expanding, and the Earth will be a burned-out cinder.