Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Astronomy Update is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by Dr. Lauren Likkel.

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

For years, scientists have predicted that in about 3.75 billion years, our Milky Way galaxy would collide with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. This cataclysmic event was thought to be a ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

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

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and radio images and illustrates the ...

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

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

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.