Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark ...

A stunning new photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy has unveiled the vast, glowing gases that surround this majestic spiral ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation ... half of its satellites co-orbit in a thin, planar structure, reminiscent of planets orbiting the sun. The coexistence of such a plane ...

According to our best understanding, the universe should be homogeneous at large scales. This means that it's ok to have ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

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 ...

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across. The Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light-years away. This means that this structure would be 500 times as thick as that distance. It’s a big ...