Astronomers predict that our home galaxy ... on Earth at this time — increasing solar luminosity will have eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way/Andromeda ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

and the stars of our surrounding galaxy. Gathered below are night images from the ISS taken over the past few months. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published ...

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The ring is made up of light coming from another galaxy almost 4.42 billion light years away and what we see from Earth is distorted by gravity. The distant galaxy is yet to be observed and ...

Using this device, as well as other modern camera equipment, Pettit and other astronauts have been able to take amazing low-light photographs recently, imaging city lights, auroras, airglow, and the ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...