Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

This is like trying to understand the layout of New York City by standing in the middle of Central Park." Our galaxy, while not small, isn't nearly as big as Andromeda. We harbor some 100 to 400 ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light-years away), will collide and eventually merge between 3.9 billion and 5.6 billion years ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...