With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been captured by the Chandra X-ray Telescope. See the imagery and hear a sonification of it.

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...

Located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, Andromeda, which is also known as Messier 31m has been a focus of the space community for more than a century, with early observations dating back ...

Named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, the high-tech observatory is expected to launch in 2027 and will feature a field of view 100 times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Astrophotographers Jakob Sahner and Tarun Kottary provided some optical data using ground-based telescopes. Andromeda is a classic spiral, with graceful arms that rotate around a central bulge.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On a clear night, some stars of the galaxy can be seen from Earth.

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 Space Telescope, and a similar satellite plane exists ...