Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late October presents a perfect opportunity to spot the ancient light of the Andromeda galaxy as it climbs high overhead to ...

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 back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

By analyzing the data from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PandAS), European astronomers have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda galaxy. The newfound object, which received the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the perfect ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

FARGO — Go outside on a clear night in early winter and look up. Everything you can see — all the stars, the planets, the shooting stars, the northern lights — is contained within the Milky Way galaxy ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here with two of its satellite or companion galaxies, is one of few objects in the night sky visible with the unaided eye that's outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. And I do ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

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 ...

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 back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...