A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.”:: Cerro Armazones, ...

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

"We have a measurement like this for only three other galaxies — all isolated from the Milky Way — and they all show a similar pattern," said Kristen McQuinn, the principal investigator on the ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

The $500 billion Stargate project is projected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here's what's known so far.

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 ...

A study carried out by a team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder has found that smaller ...