Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KOIN 6 viewer Jim Preusse caught a unique view of Monday night and Tuesday morning's northern lights from along the Oregon Coast.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the winners of its ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. This annual showcase highlights some of the world's best space photography, with ...

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What can heat distribution within galaxy clusters, which often consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies, teach astronomers about their formation and evolution? This is what a recent study ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

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November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...

The Andromeda galaxy, left, is about to collide with part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, in a hypothetical merger scenario. Credit: NASA illustration "Based on the best available data, the fate ...

KOIN 6 viewer Jim Preusse caught a unique view of Monday night and Tuesday morning's northern lights from along the Oregon Coast. Preusse used his telescope to capture a closer view of the Pleiades ...