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 ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest major galactic neighbor and one of the most iconic objects in the night sky, has captivated ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope revealed the Milky Way’s hidden center, using infrared to uncover its dense, star-packed core. This ...

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