The constellations help us find our way around the sky, breaking up the endless array of stars into more manageable and memorable chunks. In this article, I'll discuss five constellations I always ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal ... though the constellation patterns visible from each planet will change," ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

Stargazers will be treated to overlapping meteor showers in April. From April 20 to April 26, both the Lyrids and Eta ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd ... named after the constellation in which we see it. The Virgo Cluster contains about a thousand galaxies, and spans ...

On a clear night in Bryce Canyon, the National Park Service reports you can see all the way to the Andromeda Galaxy ... rangers lead 20-minute constellation tours that point out constellations ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4900, and a nearby star in the constellation Virgo. Despite appearing close, the star is ...