The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

Andromeda XXXV contains an estimated 20,000 Suns worth of stars and lies about half a million light-years from the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, or about three times the width of M31 itself.

Others were indistinct splotches, more likely to be the gas and dust that supplies the raw material for new stars and planets ... the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they ...

The smallest, dimmest galaxy orbiting Andromeda to date. Image: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias A group of astronomers has discovered ...

This galaxy, designated Andromeda XXXV, and its compatriots orbiting our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, could change how we think about cosmic evolution. That's because dwarf galaxies this small ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way ... dragging Earth and the other planets with it. But even though the Milky Way and Andromeda each have 100 billion stars, it's ...

The dust rings of the Andromeda Galaxy stand out in this infrared image ... As long as astronomers have gazed at the stars and planets, there has been the temptation to see the handiwork of ...

Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image) ...