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

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 ...

One of the more interesting features of the late summer and early autumn Colorado sky is the faint band of light that now stretches from Sagittarius in the southwest to Perseus in the northeast and ...

An incredible picture of the Andromeda Galaxy has captured viral attention online after it was shared by an amateur photographer. Brennan Gilmore, who lives in Cismont, Virginia, shared the picture on ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

This time of year you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye. Away from city lighting, look in the southeastern sky in the early evening and ...

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 ...