India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

Andromeda will continue growing in the sky towards closer and one day it will be one of the brightest objects that can be ...

Hoping for a glimpse of the Milky Way? These user-friendly apps help stargazers learn more about objects in the sky, check visibility for prime Milky Way viewing, or even locate the International ...

Molecular clouds are huge masses of gas and dust that are remnants of galaxy formation.

A century ago, one dim, flickering star in the Andromeda galaxy forced astronomy to face a larger universe. That star, cataloged as V1, sits roughly 2.2 million light years away, about 13 quintillion ...

Well, it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions in this column that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk. But it’s not really flat—not according to any reasonable ...

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