To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way ... The picture below is what the sky would look like on Earth if it the planet was around to see the end of the galaxy war: The ...

Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Weisz continues: “Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that’s between a star ... Its stated mission is to search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing as ...