NASA's advanced observatories have unveiled the Milky Way's hidden beauty, from its dense core with a supermassive black hole ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see stars, most of which are relatively close: less than 5,000 light-years from ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

For decades, astronomers have said of our Milky Way galaxy is headed for an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, Andromeda, in approximately 4.5 billion years. This collision, ...

Sequels don't always hit hard, but the following from BioWare's roster of games did a decent job of delivering when they launched. Mass Effect: Andromeda moved the franchise light-years from its ...

Cosmological simulations say that such an alignment should not happen, with a probability of less than 0.3%. Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided ...