Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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

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

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond ... Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... escape their bounds beyond a point called the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...