A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Gaia's map of the Milky Way has become iconic. This image is constructed from Gaia data that's mapping two billion of the ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy lies within the galaxy cluster MACS J1423.8+2404, as seen in this image taken by the James ... are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

These atoms eventually fall back into their original galaxy, including the Milky Way, and get turned into new stuff. In a new study, published Dec. 27, 2024 in the journal The Astrophysical ...