Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; the vast majority of its satellite galaxies appear to be pointing in our ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the one thing visible to the unaided eye located outside our galaxy. Just $2 for 6 months! SUBSCRIBE NOW Show Search. Clear Search Query Submit Search.

The Andromeda Galaxy was supposedly first noted by the Persian astronomer Abd-al-Rahman Al-Sufi, who described it as a "little cloud" in his "Book of Fixed Stars" in 964 A.D.

The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are the closest neighbors despite that incredible distance. Still, without a doubt, Andromeda is a larger galaxy, possibly twice the diameter of our Milky Way.

From an amateur astronomy perspective, what I like most about the Andromeda Galaxy is that it is the farthest object that humans can see with the naked eye. And at 2.5 million light-years away ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Science Museum of Virginia invites the public to attend first-of-its-kind showings of a stunning new view of the Andromeda Galaxy this weekend. CBS 6 met with astronomer ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to see closer to the center in our neighboring Andromeda galaxy than in any other galaxy except our own. In doing so, they ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The newfound galaxy, which lies about 2.4 million light years away, was ...

This time of year, you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye in our Rochester night sky.

While you could go out and try to find the comet in the sky on your own, if you want to view its rare conjunction with the Andromeda Galaxy easily, you can tune into a live stream being held by ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies 2.5 million light-years away and looks like a faint spindle, about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. It is considered a near-twin to the Milky Way galaxy.