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

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

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

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

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

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...