NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of NGC 1827, a spiral galaxy located around 37 million light-years from Earth. Seen from the side, the galaxy reveals long, dark dust lanes, ...

A long, thin band of light floating in spaceWhen you hear the words 'galaxy floating in the night sky,' many of you probably ...

When you think of galaxies, you probably imagine them spinning around in a spiral. Our Milky Way galaxy, along with the solar ...

As ghosts, skeletons and spiders roam the streets trick-or-treating on Halloween night, they'll have cosmic company.

Friday, October 30Take a peek over at Pisces this evening before moonrise to look for its famous Circlet asterism of stars.

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 30: Mars approaches Leo Let's send off ...

Witches, dragons, demons and fireballs abound in the autumnal night sky, provided you know where to look.

At the start of the month, Mars is higher in the sky but is heading rapidly downward and passes to the left of Jupiter on ...

Hubble reveals a mystery in nearby dwarf galaxies, where powerful stellar explosions appear to have swept away much of their ...

As noted earlier, Mars laps Jupiter on November 14, and then passes just north of Regulus in the dawn on November 24. Jupiter ...

Arp 220 is one of the brightest infrared galaxies in the nearby universe, with intense star formation fueled by a collision ...

A Spanish-led team dated stars with Gaia and found the galactic disk formed in two stages, a puffy turbulent one and then a ...