What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan Mitchell Maricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

But one backyard astrophotographer has shattered that notion with a stunning photo of the Andromeda Galaxy ... and even some of our solar system’s planets, like Saturn. But his most recent ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

This galaxy, designated Andromeda XXXV, and its compatriots orbiting our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, could change how we think about cosmic evolution. That's because dwarf galaxies this small ...

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy ... Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids orbit. It lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

"Even though our galaxy, as well as the Andromeda galaxy, has 100 billion stars in it, they're very far apart." Not only will the solar system survive, but Earth will see a spectacular show as the ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda ... system," said Daniel Weisz of the University of California, Berkeley. "The way things come together matters a lot in understanding this ...

Sometimes metres and kilometres are used to measure objects and distances in space, especially if they are small or within our solar ... Way to Andromeda, the next nearest spiral galaxy, is ...