(ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar) We've waited a long time for such a detailed look at our galaxy. Radio astronomy, ...

One of the largest galaxies ever found, the behemoth is about 1.44 billion light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the ...

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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

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

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

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

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

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

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...