The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

In September, the sky gets dark significantly earlier, allowing us to observe the night sky without having to stay up too ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The new jet, announced in the journal Nature, has been dubbed “Porphyrion” (a giant in Greek mythology) by its discoverers at ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

With winter around the corner it's time to figure out those desert plans! Al Quaa Desert, affectionately known as the "Milky ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of ...

Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.

A visualization of our Milky Way galaxy, seen edge-on ... we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the crowding of stars is so dense that the typical spiral ...