Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, the Milky Way’s mass is about 1.5 trillion solar masses, and the beefiest ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way's ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our cosmic neighbor, is far more turbulent than previously thought. A new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope has mapped the chaotic history of Andromeda’s dwarf galaxy system, ...

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The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we thought we had learned from our own galaxy.

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Andromeda XXXV is the smallest and faintest galaxy ever observed Located3 million light-years away, it defies galaxy formation theories Scientists are rethinking how such galaxies survive extreme cond ...

Not only is Andromeda XXXV the dimmest and smallest known satellite galaxy in the Andromeda system, it's about 3 million light-years away, making it very hard to spot. The ellipse within the inset ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...