A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...
Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...