Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Any potential findings could also shed light on the Milky Way's future because our galaxy is predicted to potentially collide with Andromeda in the next 5 to 10 billion years. The release of the ...

The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ... a glimpse at how star formation could have taken place in the early days of the universe.

A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B ...

was nearly a million light years away – too remote to be a part of the Milky Way. Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble’s ...