Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...
The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.