This year no moon will interfere with the annual Perseid meteor shower, which should peak in the predawn hours of Aug. 13.

NASA's Hubble telescope reveals the Andromeda Galaxy has been forming fewer new stars for 500 million years. Here's why the ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Venus with a crescent moon, easier views of Andromeda, an unhindered Perseid meteor peak, and a deep lunar eclipse, plus ...

A new study using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has ...

This year, August serves a smorgasbord of celestial delights in both the morning and evening skies. In the west, Venus is still bright, though steadily sinking into the sunset. On Aug. 16, its beauty ...

Using Survey data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury, the researchers studied star formation near M32.

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 ...

The northern sky’s greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the Princess. This star system is our nearest large spiral galaxy, and it sits at ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

A galaxy 2.5 million light-years away can be seen in Massachusetts. The best times to see the Andromeda Galaxy might be in late September and early October. This is when the Andromeda galaxy can be ...