Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what it sounds like ... they discovered ...

The Lyrids meteor shower begins on April 17 and peaks April 22. Stargazers can see 18 meteors per hour streaking across the ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our cosmic neighbor, is far more turbulent than previously thought. A new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope has mapped the chaotic history of Andromeda’s dwarf galaxy system, ...

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 ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87. That ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Uranus will be visible to keen stargazers with a telescope ... Galaxies are huge collections of gas, dust, and billions of stars. Our closest major galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. At 2.5 million light ...

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what ... they discovered that the ones visible around M31 appear different in at least one key way.