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 ...

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 ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth ... neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way ...

Weisz continues: “Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that’s between a star ... Its stated mission is to search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing as ...