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 back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late October presents a perfect opportunity to spot the ancient light of the Andromeda galaxy as it climbs high overhead to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the perfect ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

This is M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, with its two companion elliptical galaxies, the very small M32 below, and larger M110 above. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here with two of its satellite or companion galaxies, is one of few objects in the night sky visible with the unaided eye that's outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. And I do ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you're a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

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 back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...