The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

It all looks so beautiful and peaceful. The images of other galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy convey a similar feeling. However, these impressions are incorrect. Out there among the galaxies, the ...

Spiral galaxies are perhaps the most famous kind of galaxy, but sometimes they collide with other spirals and form elliptical ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...

The farther north you go from this latitude, the higher Polaris appears in the sky; the lower you go, the lower Polaris gets. Ah, Andromeda, our galactic neighbor. Incredibly, you should be able to ...

The UM School of Theatre and Dance is producing "Silent Sky," based on an astronomer whose analyses at the Harvard ...

Everything we thought we knew about galaxy formation was thrown into question in the 1990s after astronomers discovered two distant, massive galaxies ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Black Friday is not until 29 November, but deals are already live. Here are the best that I've found already: from ...