The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

The newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is racing toward the Sun, and it may not survive its closest approach.

Astronomy fans will be craning their necks upwards over the next few weeks as the Lyrids meteor shower will be visible in the ...

A newly-discovered comet is currently hurtling towards the sun and could be visible to UK stargazers. The unexpected comet is ...

For the best chance of watching the spectacular northern lights, many head to areas around the Arctic, such as Norway, ...

including in images of a striking ‘spiral nebula’ in the constellation of Andromeda, a fuzzy object among the stars that looked like a whirlpool. The embedded variable stars proved that the ...

Minor Planet Center officially designated comet SWAN25F as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) on April 8. SWAN is an instrument particularly designed to study the Sun ...

Putting Isaac Roberts’ astonishing 1888 photographs of the Great Nebula in Andromeda and other spiral nebulae to cosmic effect at his argument’s outset, Pettigrew then immersed the reader in a ...