Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

The cosmos has a way of keeping astronomers on their toes. Just beyond the edges of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have identified the tiniest galaxy ever ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped ...

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million ...

One creative Pokemon fan puts a space-themed twist on Bulbasaur, making new designs based on things like black holes and more ...

Answer: For near stars, astronomers use a method called parallax. During Earth’s orbit, near stars seem to shift their position against the farther stars. This is called parallax shift. By ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...

His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death” ...