A new study using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have shed light on a recent chapter in the history of our Milky Way's neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of ...

Our nearest large galactic neighbor has been going quiet for half a billion years — and a new study published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal has now mapped that silence, star by star, across ...

Star formation in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has been slowing down over the last 500 million years, according to a new study using Hubble Space Telescope data. The study was published July 27, ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring galaxy. The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows a possible view from Earth of the early stages of a predicted merger billions of years from now between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beautiful white and blue spiral galaxy is seen slightly edge-on with a vast black section of space behind it. There are glowing ...