The Lyrids meteor shower begins on April 17 and peaks April 22. Stargazers can see 18 meteors per hour streaking across the ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast ...

Andromeda would also gradually become a dominant, imposing feature in our night sky, as NASA has depicted in visualizations.

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

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 closest major galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. At 2.5 million light years away, it’s best observed with a telescope, but during optimum stargazing conditions it can be seen with the naked eye. A ...

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 ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at ... After six billion years of cosmic carnage, Earth's night sky would be ablaze with the elliptical galaxy's bright, new core ...