A stronomers have discovered that the Milky Way might be just a small piece of a much larger cosmic structure than previously ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains ...

It’s essentially a reverse Big Bang, which scientists have dubbed the “Big Crunch”. Using data from a number of astronomical ...

Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31.

While this may sound scary, there is little chance humanity will survive to see the end of the universe. In about five billion years, the Sun will swell into a red giant and consume the inner solar ...

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive telescope. What would you see? In this video, we journey to Andromeda and ...

When to see it While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the United States.