The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks claim it’s visible to the naked eye. Most of us have never noticed it. Too ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a striking shot of the fluffy spiral galaxy ...

Hubble snapped this incredibly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation" to help mark its 25th anniversary. NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team What do the "Pillars of Creation" look like ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the star ...

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 ...

For decades, astronomers have said of our Milky Way galaxy is headed for an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, Andromeda, in approximately 4.5 billion years. This collision, ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...