In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The Harry Potter films have many surprises, but some of the biggest from the books never made it to the big screen.

Andromeda was released when most players were getting tired of the open-world game design. Previous Mass Effect games had straddled the fine line between large explorable spaces and a fully open ...

Mass Effect: Andromeda introduced several mysteries that went unanswered after Mass Effect went on ice several months after it launched. With the announcement and development of Mass Effect 4 ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

For the most part, BioWare's Mass Effect series has remained the same, aside from Mass Effect: Andromeda, which felt like a significant departure and garnered plenty of criticism in the end ...

Andromeda is seen almost edge-on ... The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images against a black background. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, ...

His remark holds true now, nearly half a decade later. At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy—officially called Messier 31—is the farthest object visible to the naked eye.

It's also great for things that are much closer, like our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Despite its nearness, photographing the entire Andromeda Galaxy is no easy task.

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...