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

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

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

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

"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” ...

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

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...