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.

In fact, the furthest ends of the galaxy would reach all the way to the Andromeda galaxy, which is our nearest galactic ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for ...

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 ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

The instrument, called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), features approximately 2,400 prisms scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, ...

Notably, the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe has taken the lead in ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 mph - fast enough to circle the world in just six minutes. And it's scheduled to collide, head-on, with the ...

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.