The Lyrids meteor shower begins on April 17 and peaks April 22. Stargazers can see 18 meteors per hour streaking across the ...

That makes close encounters with other stars extremely unlikely, even during a galaxy ... said. Andromeda would also ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

But one backyard astrophotographer has shattered that notion with a stunning photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing individual stars and swirling cosmic dust in breathtaking detail. Andrew ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky ... billion years after the Big Bang, during the universe-wide event known ...

Not only is Andromeda XXXV the dimmest and smallest known satellite galaxy in the Andromeda system, it's about 3 million light-years away, making it very hard to spot. The ellipse within the inset ...

Our closest major galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy ... January's full 'Wolf Moon' and February's 'Snow Moon' both illuminated the night sky, but March will see a spectacular 'Blood Moon' during a rare ...

Earth itself will survive, but when this galactic war happens, Earth's night sky will look like ... Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 mph ...

A rare grouping of 10 celestial bodies is captured in a stunning new photo taken during ... night sky offered pristine views ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Dalcanton / B.F. Williams / L.C. Johnson / PHAT team / R. Gendler Surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, three dozen tiny galaxies aren't behaving the way scientists expected. NASA's Hubble Space ...