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

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

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

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

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

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 ...

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 ...