ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved the way for ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really ... Then, all you'd need to do to work out how far away the star is would ...

"The full mosaic was carried out under two Hubble programs ... foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far beyond Andromeda (shown in yellowish-orange).

ESA said: "But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way: the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31)." The galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on ...

It turns out that the Firefly Sparkle’s original ... But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive ...

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Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

The Subaru Telescope on Maunakea will be able to observe more than 2,000 celestial objects at once with a new instrument that will go online in February.

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 stellar island to our Milky Way — the ...