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 ...

Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

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.

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 ...

“The discovery meant that these galaxies [had to be] older than the age of the universe, which is physically impossible,” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a look at the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy, being stripped of its ...

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 ...