https://www.cnet.com/news/cosmic-collision-billions-of-years-off-could-fling-earth-out-of-milky-way/ > "There is a small chance that we might not escape unscathed from the collision between the two galaxies which could knock us out of the Milky Way and into interstellar space," Marius Cautun, a postdoctoral fellow at Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in a statement. > Cautun is lead author of a paper being published Friday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.