The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics.

It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic took over 10 years to create, captures 200 million stars, still a fraction of Andromeda ...

The Andromeda ... from the Milky Way. In the latest study, Hubble's sharp imaging uncovered more than 200 million stars in Andromeda. This marks the most detailed survey of the galaxy, which ...

Over more than ten years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken individual images of the Andromeda Galaxy ... is larger than our Milky Way thanks to this very galaxy. Until then, it had been ...

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 autumn ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...