Get ready to witness our cosmic neighbor like never before! :milky_way: Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher spent 38 hours capturing an unbelievably detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way.

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

As the sun sets, the Summer Triangle is straight overhead. To the north, the Big Dipper dominates as always, its cup sitting nearly parallel to the horizon late in the evening. Malan is astronomy ...

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of ...

The winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been revealed, showcasing a spectacular selection of night sky images that reveal the majesty of ancient galaxies, nebulas, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Stephan's Quintet is a four-galaxy merger (with a fifth galaxy photobombing the action) in the ...