Two of them, the Magellanic Clouds, can be seen with the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere. They look like detached scraps of the Milky Way.) The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black hole. The supergiant star M31 ...

New research shows how one massive, hydrogen-depleted supergiant star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) failed to detonate as a ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

and eventually produced this spectacular image of the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light years from Earth. Optical: ESO, WFI: Submilimetre: MPIFR, ESO, APEX, A. Weiss et al. X-Ray: NASA ...

This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

It resides roughly 550 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus ... What you see here is a magical view of the Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way galaxy's cosmic neighbor.

From the mysterious 'eye in the sky', to the majestic 'waterfall of stars', check out these 7 enchanting images of galaxies ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

You’re out in the cold to find the Andromeda Galaxy, the next-door neighbor to our own Milky Way Galaxy, home to our sun and possibly another 300 billion or so stars, and Lord knows how many ...