Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

The near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass by the galaxy Andromeda this evening. The rare event will be streamed live.

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Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

A new study of M31, also known as Andromeda, explains how our cosmic neighbor kills off smaller nearby galaxies.

Andromeda, the 2017 spinoff of BioWare's acclaimed sci-fi series, was maligned at launch. Here's why it deserved a sequel.

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a magnificent view of the Triangulum spiral galaxy bursting with the light of newly formed stars some three million light-years from Earth. Brecher's ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Constellation Perseus culminates high upon the north-south meridian around 10 p.m. Dec. 25, with its brightest star Alpha ...