The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

"Even though our galaxy, as well as the Andromeda galaxy, has 100 billion stars in it, they're very far apart." Not only will the solar system survive, but Earth will see a spectacular show as the ...

The majority opinion among astronomers was that everything our telescopes could see was organized into one vast celestial system—called ... the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more ...

Earth spins as it orbits the Sun, and the solar system is orbiting ... And don't forget that our galaxy is likely on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Our entire local cluster ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

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 ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy ... Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids orbit. It lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

Hubble captures largest Andromeda galaxy photomosaic 200 million stars revealed in Andromeda’s stunning image Insights into Andromeda's mergers and star-forming history ...