GREENBELT, Md. — In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA’s Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever ...

We only have five billion years left until the Milky Way galaxy crashes into Andromeda, our nearest neighbor. What will happen to us then? Because galactic collisions take place over millions or ...

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CNN — The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way galaxy's largest and nearest neighbor, is surrounded by a massive halo that is actually bumping up against our own galaxy's halo, according to new research ...

The Andromeda galaxy's spiralling stars are played as musical notes in a new NASA observatory video, creating a cosmic crescendo that's out of this world. The sonification video, released by NASA's ...