Mercury is well placed in the SW evening skies the first two weeks of November, but is lost in its glare by Thanksgiving.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS didn’t quite live up to the expectations of being the “comet of the century” and during November its ...

Andy Cohen on the madness of US politics, the behind-the-scenes drama of the Real Housewives and why we’re all now famous for 15 minutes ...

In other words, a galaxy 1 megaparsec away appears to be traveling away from the Milky Way ... Space.com's sister site LiveScience. "So science fiction has long postulated a way to beat the ...

When our mother turned 60, my sister living in Virginia, secretly drove up for the celebration and hid in my coat closet. Mom ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...