New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

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For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct observation, but from the computing power of sophisticated computer ...

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some ...