From elegant spirals and massive ellipticals to oddball irregulars and barred beauties, here’s how stars reveal a galaxy’s ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

On a clear night with dark skies, you can catch a glimpse of the Milky Way, a luminous arc stretching across the horizon. To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes in ...

NASA says that galaxies were formed billions of years before the Big Bang, after the period of ionization, and even though some studies show otherwise, ours is one of the youngest in the universe. The ...

September offers various celestial events, including Saturn and Neptune's oppositions, Mars's approach to solar conjunction, and favorable viewing of Uranus and Jupiter. Multiple transits of Saturn's ...