They look like detached scraps of the Milky Way.) The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue ... vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that ...

Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda ... trillions of planets. If you were ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky ... The picture below is what the sky would look like on Earth if it the planet was around to see the end of the galaxy war: The solar ...

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what it sounds like. These tiny, dim stellar conglomerations are common in the universe, but tricky to observe ...

Astronomers have discovered a collection of tiny galaxies located roughly 3 million light-years away that includes the smallest and faintest galaxy ever seen. This galaxy, designated Andromeda ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

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 ...

Yet the very same objects that gave this planet life ... together. As Andromeda and the Milky Way merge, both will lose their disk-like structure, forming a single elliptical galaxy that some ...