Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely ... it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy ... to make it spherical but not enough to generate nuclear energy. Planets have non-intersecting orbits around stars or drift freely in space.

In just four billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda will have tugged and ripped ... look like on Earth if it the planet was around to see the end of the galaxy war: The solar system won ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy ...

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...

Moons orbit planets ... a little more complicated. Our galaxy is part of a collection of galaxies called the Local Group, ...

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped ...