How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

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.

Thinking of Andromeda and the Milky Way in isolation doesn't account for the other galaxies in what we know as the "Local Group." This comprises approximately 100 smaller galaxies at various ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel - about 2.5 million light-years - but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer ... The new research is based on data from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey ...

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging to the Local Group cluster. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang ...

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 ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...