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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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

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

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

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

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

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...