Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer ... the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more ...

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

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy ... during the universe-wide event known as reionization, ...

Apple has once again altered the Universe according to their whim. They moved/removed many stars, and got rid of a whole galaxy. This is M110, which is one of M31’s [Andromeda’s] satellites. The other ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

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

Chinese astronomers have compiled the most comprehensive catalogue to date of the Andromeda Galaxy, known as Messier 31 ... that reveals over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters ...

The Andromeda galaxy and we in the Milky ... of globular clusters. In a galaxy known as NGC 7252, there are globular clusters made up of stars 15 billion years old, 500 million years old and ...

Researchers are studying how it retained conditions for star formation despite harsh ... The video of Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M31, has left users on the micro-blogging ...