A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

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 ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

Not only is Andromeda XXXV the dimmest and smallest known satellite galaxy in the Andromeda system, it's about 3 million light-years away, making it very hard to spot. The ellipse within the inset ...

But one backyard astrophotographer has shattered that notion with a stunning photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing individual stars and swirling cosmic dust in breathtaking detail. Andrew ...

The brightest companion galaxy to Andromeda is Messier 32 (M32 ... NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations. Lockheed Martin ...

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light ... and Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Astronomers have discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest known galaxy, located 3 million light-years away. It challenges existing models of galaxy formation, as similar small galaxies ...