Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way.

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

Stargazers are in for a celestial treat as our galaxy becomes more visible in late May skies. The increased visibility of the ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

"Curiously, studies have found that several of the Andromeda Galaxy’s dwarf galaxies, including Andromeda III, orbit in a flat plane around the galaxy, like the planets in our solar system orbit ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

A new planetarium and observatory has opened in a national park to offer people the chance to explore the Universe. Grizedale ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen alpha (Ha) clouds taken with a DSLR camera back in 2020, and inspired by the recent discovery by ...