Marchin’ On! I’d guess that a clear majority of JJ readers have at least one recording by at least one of the Heath Brothers – bassist Percy worked with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

The vast "sheet" of dark matter could explain why almost all of our galactic neighbors are running away from us.

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct observation, but from the computing power of sophisticated computer ...

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data shows structures and behavior that don’t fit neatly with existing models of how ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) to explore the nearby Andromeda galaxy. Results of the observational ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project, Background: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage ...

The following contains mild spoilers for The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. Given it started as a half-hour radio comedy, Hitchhikers’ plot is surreal, episodic and prone to (what appear to be) ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...