Have you ever wondered why the Andromeda Galaxy is speeding toward us? Recent research uncovers the gravitational forces and ...

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million light-years away from us. This discovery, named Andromeda XXXV, could well shake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there’s a whole “will they or won’t they” thing going on. In 2012 scientists published their results of Hubble Space Telescope observations ...

Our nearest major galactic neighbor is a cosmic cannibal. And it's heading this way eventually. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the largest member of the Milky Way’s gang of galactic neighbors, known as the Local Group. With around a trillion suns worth of mass, Andromeda’s gravitational influence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

The Milky Way is home to the Sun, our Solar System, and hundreds of billions of stars beyond that. Yet unlike all the other galaxies out there — in our Local Group and in the Universe beyond — we have ...