Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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