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

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

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 ...

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.

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

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

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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