Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; ...

O ur neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy ... millions of galaxies and map their distribution in ...

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging to the Local Group cluster. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy ... colliding with its neighbor Andromeda. However, a new analysis of a more distant galaxy is hinting at another dramatic ...

Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by ... visible in the foreground belong to our own Milky Way galaxy, as do the several distinct colorful stars which ...