Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal ... though the constellation patterns visible from each planet will change," Dodson-Robinson said. Andromeda would also gradually become a dominant, imposing ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

planet, or moon, usually mediated by a rotating disk. Active galaxy—A galaxy with an unusually strong output of energy, thought to be powered by a supermassive black hole in its core. Andromeda ...

the next-door neighbor to our own Milky Way Galaxy, home to our sun and possibly another 300 billion or so stars, and Lord knows how many other planets! It is possible tosee the Andromeda Galaxy ...

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

This week, the night sky will dazzle stargazers with a rare cosmic alignment as Mars and the Moon come together for a ...

As a result of its vast size, the Milky Way can boast at least one planet with intelligent life. Giant galaxies like the Milky Way and the nearby, even larger Andromeda galaxy possess the power to ...