About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.