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

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.

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

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

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

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

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

In a distant part of the universe, where astronomy uncovers the mysteries of creation, an extraordinary discovery has been ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy ... in the universe and happens to be the most important stellar island near our Milky Way, said ...

"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” ...