Catch a glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy as it hangs high in the October night sky. Late October presents a perfect ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

The Milky Way galaxy is far from static. It spins, it wobbles, and now, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space ...

Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence that stars at the edge of the galactic disk are moving like people doing ...

The spiral-bound chart before me appeared vaguely familiar. Clear markings combined with the use of color highlights, ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 891 lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Unlike the face-on spiral galaxies many observers are familiar with, NGC 891 is seen perfectly edge-on ...