For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

Astronomers have discovered a collection of tiny galaxies located roughly 3 million light-years away that includes the smallest and faintest galaxy ever seen. This galaxy, designated Andromeda ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation ... and even became more pronounced as fainter galaxies have been discovered and their distances refined," explains Mr. Kosuke Jamie Kanehisa ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

The dust rings of the Andromeda Galaxy stand out in this infrared image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered even brighter infrared galaxies that have inspired some ...

Astronomers have discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest known galaxy, located 3 million light-years away. It challenges existing models of galaxy formation, as similar small galaxies ...

As Andromeda and the Milky Way merge, both will lose their disk-like structure, forming a single elliptical galaxy that some ... Edwin Hubble’s 1929 discovery, the universe is expanding and ...