The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

April is also a good month for galaxy-watching with the help of a telescope, including the Andromeda Galaxy ... which orbits the sun every 415 years. The streaks of light appear to originate ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at ... if it weren't for the fact that the Sun will likely swallow Earth in about five billion years. The picture below is what ...

The inexorable tug of gravity that enabled the formation of the Milky Way has also put us on a collision course with our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda ... luminosity of our sun will have rendered ...

Barnard's Star is a red dwarf star and is the fourth nearest star to the Sun at approximately 6 light years distance. The distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda, the next nearest spiral galaxy ...