the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

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 ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

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Meet SPHEREx, NASA's next cosmic mapmaker – targeting launch in late February 2025. This space telescope will scan the entire sky, charting the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

We're stuck inside the Milky Way and will never escape it ... only our nearest neighbour but also the nearest spiral to us and the largest galaxy in the Local Group. Those facts aren't just answers to ...