What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way ... disk of Andromeda, which is seen almost edge-on -- tilted by 77 degrees relative to Earth's ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda ... detailed than the Milky Way, because we can’t even see most of the Milky Way — it’s ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

That’s fast enough to cover the distance between the Earth and ... the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision ... that are brighter than Earth's sun.