Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

Both of those constellations are close to the constellation of Andromeda, which is rising high in the eastern night sky after dark this month. The darker your night sky, the better. That’s ...

If the sky is dark and the moon is not too bright, and if you know exactly where to look, you can just barely see the ...

The Milky Way isn't the only galaxy you can see in the night sky. Using high-powered telescopes, you can spot other galaxies like Andromeda, which is our closest galactic neighbor. Read next ...

However, NASA has created step-by-step illustrations depicting what those future night-sky views would look like as the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies collide. Take a look.

Learn what you could see in the night sky with no equipment from the Royal Observatory Greenwich; from galaxies and meteor ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Getty Images Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced ... years away in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, brightened in 2014 ...