They look like detached scraps of the Milky Way.) The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue ... vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky ... 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 solar ...

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what it sounds like. These tiny, dim stellar conglomerations are common in the universe, but tricky to observe ...

The itsy-bitsy satellite galaxy is named Andromeda XXXV and sits about 3 million light-years from Earth. The discovery ... “It’s like having a perfectly functional human being that’s the ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

The dust rings of the Andromeda Galaxy stand out ... Drake assumed that because life developed on Earth, it would be most likely found on planets like ours orbiting stars like our sun.

Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to estimate the number ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Yet the very same objects that gave this planet life ... together. As Andromeda and the Milky Way merge, both will lose their disk-like structure, forming a single elliptical galaxy that some ...