Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; ...

However, that's not quite what astronomers are finding. A large fraction of M31's dwarf satellites are confined to a plane ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring ...

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as ...

Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31 ... For galaxies farther afield, it's difficult to find faint dwarf galaxies and measure the distance to them, so astronomers cannot say for certain ...

However, that's not quite what astronomers are finding. A large fraction of M31's dwarf satellites are confined to a plane around the Andromeda Galaxy, as confirmed earlier in 2025 by the Hubble ...