Did you know that you can see the closest spiral galaxy next to our own in the sky? While binoculars and telescopes will offer much better views, it’s still possible to see it with your naked eye if ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here with two of its satellite or companion galaxies, is one of few objects in the night sky visible with the unaided eye that's outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. And I do ...

Shannon Silverman guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West ...

FARGO — Go outside on a clear night in early winter and look up. Everything you can see — all the stars, the planets, the shooting stars, the northern lights — is contained within the Milky Way galaxy ...

This illustration shows the location of the 43 quasars scientists used to probe Andromeda's gaseous halo. Quasars are extremely distant, brilliant cores of galaxies powered by star-eating black holes.

How would you like to see what's behind the stars? When I was a boy I couldn't wait to find the Orion Nebula, the Hercules globular cluster and many others with my telescope and binoculars. But first ...