Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely ... it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that ...

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 ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera ... a bit like moons forming around a planet. However, another team of astronomers has previously ...

The dust rings of the Andromeda Galaxy stand out in this infrared ... As long as astronomers have gazed at the stars and planets, there has been the temptation to see the handiwork of intelligent ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda survived the blistering conditions of the early universe.

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy ... to make it spherical but not enough to generate nuclear energy. Planets have non-intersecting orbits around stars or drift freely in space.

In just four billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda will have tugged and ripped ... look like on Earth if it the planet was around to see the end of the galaxy war: The solar system won ...

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