Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...
In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...
How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...