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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

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

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.

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, is a treasure trove of stars and cosmic mysteries. Thanks to ...

Uncover the mysteries of galaxies with Rutgers University's new findings on Leo P, a small galaxy that started and stopped ...

New evidence suggests the universe is expanding faster than predicted. Explore the Hubble constant and its implications for ...