Near-Earth asteroid Eros will appear near the Andromeda Galaxy on 30 November, offering a rare sky alignment livestream for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

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

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

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

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

The newly released Andromeda image represents a decade of careful tracking and uninterrupted observation. Scientists expected ...

A century ago, one dim, flickering star in the Andromeda galaxy forced astronomy to face a larger universe. That star, cataloged as V1, sits roughly 2.2 million light years away, about 13 quintillion ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...