The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Look up on a clear night and somewhere in that vast darkness above, Andromeda waits. It’s the closest major galaxy to ours, a neighbor sitting roughly two and a half million light years away. Most ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow of space itself. Yet one stubborn exception has lingered in our cosmic ...

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Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding toward us while our other neighbors are moving away from us. When you purchase ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter? Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic ...

A huge clump of dark matter could be sitting on our galactic doorstep. Scientists found evidence of an invisible, massive nugget in the galactic neighborhood of the sun. The suspected clod of dark ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...