Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

On Wednesday, astronomers working with NASA's Swift satellite spotted what looked like massive bursts of radiation in the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda. Many speculated that the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the largest member of the Milky Way’s gang of galactic neighbors, known as the Local Group. With around a trillion suns worth of mass, Andromeda’s gravitational influence ...

The spiral disk of the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way’s neighbor, is just a tiny part of a much larger entity. The visible part of the galaxy is embedded in a tenuous halo of gas about six times as ...

Chemical analysis of stars in the galaxy next door has revealed its upbringing was more chaotic than our own galaxy's. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Once upon a time, there were three huge galaxies in the Local Group that were the best of friends, Andromeda, The Milky Way and the Milky Way’s slightly smaller sibling, M32p. For a long time the ...

When Galaxies Collide! It sounds like an early science fiction novel. However, analysis of Hubble measurements shows that our own Milky Way galaxy is moving toward a head-on collision with our nearest ...

Researchers predict the collision will lead to the creation of a new galaxy nicknamed 'Milkdromeda' THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and ...

Modern astrophysics tells us that the universe is expanding. Everything is getting farther apart as space-time stretches outward into nothingness. Well, almost everything. Scientists have long ...

There’s more to galaxies than meets the eye, and now astronomers have mapped out a huge invisible region of the galaxy next door. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have detailed the size and ...

The apocalypse has been postponed. Astronomers have long known that the Andromeda galaxy, a.k.a. Messier 31, a swirling city-state of a trillion stars — plus all the accouterments of gas, dust, dark ...