A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have captured an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy, which they say ...

The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said ...

Although star-forming clumps had already been observed with the Hubble Space Telescope, only the infrared capabilities ... The survey results also confirm predictions of galaxy evolution based on ...

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from near ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

Instead, we took a fresh look at existing observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission ... the future paths of the Milky Way and Andromeda: the Large Magellanic Cloud, a massive ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.