For decades, astronomers believed Andromeda and the Milky Way were destined to merge in about 4 billion years. But new ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

A new study suggests that the closest intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations may lie 33,000 light-years from Earth, ...

From star clusters and planets to meteor showers and galaxies, here's a list of some must-see astronomical events set to take place this month ...

Manuel Linares is a physicist at NTNU who studies binary stars called "spider pulsars." The stars got this name because they ...

The conditions favouring the rise of advanced aliens are much rarer than previously thought, according to a new study, which suggests the nearest planet hosting extraterrestrial civilisation could be ...