NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the ...

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 ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted some strange behaviour from a swarm of galaxies around Andromeda, our neighbour galaxy. A mere 2.5 million light years away from our Milky Way galaxy ...

These detailed measurements from Hubble refine models of Andromeda’s merger history and disk evolution, shedding light on the galaxy’s complex past. (Image credits: Nasa) ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theories. They appear to undergo unique evolution ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive, but when ...

Astronomers have discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest known galaxy, located 3 million light-years away. It challenges existing models of galaxy formation, as similar small galaxies ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted some strange behaviour from a swarm of galaxies around Andromeda, our neighbour galaxy. A mere 2.5 million light years away from our Milky Way galaxy, NASA ...