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.

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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

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

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

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

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

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 ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...