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

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy ... to vast superclusters measuring hundreds of millions of light years in diameter. Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the ...

While many galaxies of comparable size formed through violent mergers and chaotic events, the Milky Way’s early history ...

The team also suggests their evidence shows that the Milky Way reached its maximum size approximately 11 billion years ago. More information: Maosheng Xiang et al, The formation and survival of ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...