Dennis Mammana Stargazers We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to comprehend sizes and ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you. Most people ... Read more The post 10 Best Places to See the Milky Way ...

The new study reveals that Bogong moths use stellar cues to chart their long-distance migration across southeastern Australia. The discovery marks the first confirmed case of an invertebrate using a ...

“How close they come on their first passage is very uncertain, however, and if they don’t come very close, meaning if their distance is more than around 500,000 light-years, they might not ...

Our Milky Way Might Not Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy After All—New Simulations Suggest a 50-50 Chance of Merging Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five ...

Three simulations showing Milky Way and Andromeda bypass at 1 million light year separation. At 500,000 light-years, dark matter provides friction that brings galaxies to a close encounter.

Approaching, but not directly The Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are the two biggest galaxies in our section of the universe, referred to as the Local Group. Despite being 2.5 million light ...