Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

Someday, the Andromeda Galaxy will merge with our Milky Way – and it won’t be the first time Andromeda has swallowed up another galaxy and kept the stars for itself. The nearby Andromeda Galaxy, like ...

After Welsh amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts retired from his career in engineering and manufacturing, he devoted his life to ...

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 ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Astronomers have uncovered two historic events in which the Andromeda Galaxy underwent major changes to its structure. The findings shed light not only on the evolution and formation of the Andromeda ...

The influx of stars into the galaxy next door to the Milky Way was revealed by intricate patterns in their motion today and reflects a violent event in our galaxy’s past. When you purchase through ...

Located about 2.5 million light-years from our solar system, Andromeda is the most distant object visible to the naked eye. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers led by astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered the smallest and dimmest galaxy to date that's orbiting the Andromeda system, the Milky Way's nearest major galactic ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

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On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...