STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant ... "All planets including Earth move in more or less the same plane in our solar system. "So that from our perspective the planets are always ...

With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...