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

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...

Jeremy Siegel: Today is the 100th anniversary of when the U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble, who the Hubble Space Telescope is named after, took a photo of the first star in the Andromeda Galaxy. It marked ...

NASA has released new images of the Andromeda galaxy, "the most important nearby stellar island." ... Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are.

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.. It has grown by consuming other galaxies.Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda.Though galaxy collisions are ...

Though it is a full-fledged galaxy, Andromeda XXXV is small enough to be ensnared by the gravitational pull of Andromeda—much like the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...

Still, if you get to see the Andromeda Galaxy, consider that you are seeing light 2.5 million years old, dating from when the human species was just beginning to establish a fragile foothold on ...