Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home. A new composite image reveals our ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the faintest galaxies ever found near the Andromeda Galaxy. The tiny galaxy, called Andromeda XXXVI (And XXXVI), may be around 12.5 billion years old, making it one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, with its two companion ...

An international team of astronomers identified one of the faintest galaxies ever found orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy in a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Researchers from the University ...

While Gene Roddenberry is best known for creating Star Trek, his work also inspired another sci-fi space opera series that had a five-season run. The show has been largely forgotten since being off ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...