The galaxy, also known as M31, can be seen with the naked eye but appears more spectacular from areas with minimal light ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

This annual showcase highlights some of the world's best space photography, with winners, runners-up, and highly commended images selected across ten categories. This year's overall winning image, ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

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

Photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu have beaten thousands of amateur and professional photographers from ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

The Andromeda galaxy (or M31) is the massive galaxy nearest to us, and it is an excellent laboratory to study the characteristics and the history of great galactic spirals such as our own Milky Way.

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will stage a stunning 'interstellar collision' in 3.7 billion years. This ...

Astronomers have uncovered striking new evidence for a mass migration of stars into the Andromeda Galaxy. Intricate patterns in the motions of stars reveal an immigration history very similar to that ...