On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

Astronomers have captured the high-speed collision of two galaxies, providing insights into a cosmic event that mirrors scenarios for the distant future of our Milky Way.

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Edwin Hubble is celebrated as one of the 20th century's most influential cosmologists, renowned for his pivotal contributions ...

ANSWER: Very big!! The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way is a spiral ...

You’re out in the cold to find the Andromeda Galaxy, the next-door neighbor to our own Milky Way Galaxy, home to our sun and possibly another 300 billion or so stars, and Lord knows how many ...

It all looks so beautiful and peaceful. The images of other galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy convey a similar feeling. However, these impressions are incorrect. Out there among the galaxies, the ...