Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 30: Mars approaches Leo Let's send off ...

The Great Square of Pegasus looks like a … well … a big square. Four medium-bright stars mark its corners. But if you can think of it instead as a baseball ...

Scientists suspect a black hole lurks at the center of most galaxies. The Milky Way’s black hole is called Sagittarius A*. (A* is scientist-code for “A-star.”) Its gravity, or attractive force, is so ...

Tonight … find the Andromeda galaxy, the next-nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. Be sure to look this evening, starting at nightfall. David Smith of Michigan ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, a vast spiral system located roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth, has been photographed barely ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the human eye The galaxy is located near two constellations, Cassiopeia and Andromeda Andromeda Galaxy is predicted to collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in about 4.5 ...

Can you see the Milky Way galaxy from Earth? Yes! And as stargazers and skywatchers know, it's a stunning sight to see. Comprised of billions of stars, the Milky Way galaxy got its name because from ...