Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

S targazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, Andromeda XXXV, has been discovered orbiting the Andromeda galaxy (M31), setting a record as the faintest satellite galaxy detected to date. Andromeda XXXV's discovery ...

Astronomers combined datasets across the entire energy spectrum to create the composite image seen above. The newest glimpses at Andromeda are based on composite data collected by an international ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...

The near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass by the galaxy Andromeda this evening. The rare event will be streamed live.

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and 1,000 ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...