Stargazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, and the Perseus Double Cluster will be sufficiently bright ...

Each Monday, I pick North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring galaxy. The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beautiful white and blue spiral galaxy is seen slightly edge-on with a vast black section of space behind it. There are glowing ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, isn’t just a great-looking spiral galaxy. It’s also the closest to us, which makes it visible to the naked eye from here on Earth. But the fact it’s (well, relatively) so ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...

Chapter 2, Part 7. This week, we are talking about what lies "beyond" the stars rather than the stars themselves. Since we ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The newfound galaxy, which lies about 2.4 million light years away, was identified ...