Tiny Galaxies That Speak Volumes Our Milky Way is surrounded by dozens of smaller “satellite” galaxies. These aren’t mere ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring galaxy. The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that the ...

What’s the farthest object you can see with only your eyes? Unless you live under extremely dark skies unspoiled by light pollution, the answer is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), located some 2.5 million ...

An international team of astronomers has used the UK's 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands to map the Andromeda Galaxy (otherwise known as M31) and a large area of sky all ...