CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - “When I was a kid, my cousin showed me Saturn from a telescope when I was young and that got me hooked.” Tom Weber, the President of the Cedar Amateur Astronomers recalled.

A satellite of the Andromeda galaxy and a member of the Local Group — galaxies closest to the Milky Way — M110 is less than three billion light-years from Earth. While elliptical galaxies are often ...

NASA has released a breathtaking gallery of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing celestial objects contained in the Messier catalog. The Messier collection was initially compiled ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, amateur astronomers had 12 new objects to observe during the annual Messier Marathon held March 17 and 18. The challenge is often scheduled around a new moon in ...

It’s time to get your Messier marathon on! This weekend is the ideal time to run this year’s Messier marathon, during which observers challenge themselves to find every object in the famous comet ...

A galaxy is a massive collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. Galaxies have four basic components: the nucleus which is in the center where ...

The 2011 Brit Marling sci-fi film Another Earth posited the idea of a mirrored version of Earth entering the Milky Way. The idea seems preposterous, and it probably is–in the film, the “other Earth” ...