Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

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

Moons orbit planets ... a little more complicated. Our galaxy is part of a collection of galaxies called the Local Group, ...

Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that ...

A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

Messier 32 resembles the stripped-down core of an ex-spiral galaxy in the nearby vicinity, suggesting the two may have had a coming together in the distant past. Weisz continues: “Andromeda ...

"You can’t do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 ...