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

A stunning new photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy has unveiled the vast, glowing gases that surround this majestic spiral ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory. Using special filters and 80 hours of exposure ...

Like how the Earth keeps the Moon bound on a gravitational tether, our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), ...

The Andromeda Galaxy as seen by astrophotographer Miguel Claro from Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in Cumeada, Portugal. | Credit: Miguel Claro The image features a long integration of around 80 ...