The Latest Breaking News from the Andromeda Galaxy

Hanle, Ladakh's Dark Sky Reserve: What the Altitude and Cold Demand Before You Go

What the permit actually asks of youGetting to Hanle is not a matter of booking a flight and showing up. The village sits inside the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary, which is a protected area requiring an Inner Line Permit. Indian nationals can obtain this through the Deputy Commissioner's office in Leh…

Times Life · Sep 25

Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)

Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)

Space · Nov 29, 2025

Why October is the perfect time to look for the Andromeda galaxy

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky.

Space · Oct 15, 2025

Gorgeous deep space photo captures the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by glowing gas

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in Cumeada, Portugal.

Space · Apr 23, 2025

Our galactic neighbor Andromeda has a bunch of satellite galaxies — and they're weirdly pointing at us

The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.

Space · Apr 22, 2025

'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike anything scientists expected.

LiveScience · Mar 6, 2025

How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers

A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.

Space · Feb 28, 2025

'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

LiveScience · Jan 21, 2025

The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope image

The reddish structures of our neighboring galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space · Sep 5, 2024

NASA's Hubble Telescope photographs garden of galactic roses in stunning images

The Andromeda galaxy is the Milky Way's closest neighbor, and the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye

Digital Camera World · Sep 4, 2024