Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - ...

The New Moon occurs on December 18 at 8:43 P.M. EST, providing optimal conditions for viewing deep-sky objects. The Triangulum Galaxy (M33), a 6th-magnitude spiral galaxy in western Triangulum, is ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...