"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million light-years away from us. This discovery, named Andromeda XXXV, could well ...

Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are normal ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Related: The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope image Starting in late 2019, Hubble spent two years cataloging images — as well as measurements of the locations and ...

Stargazers will be treated to overlapping meteor showers in April. From April 20 to April 26, both the Lyrids and Eta ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as ...

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 ...

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 ...