A new image captured by the NASA and European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope is drawing attention to a faint and unusual ...

How do astronomers know how far away stars are? Unfortunately, it’s not a short and easy answer.

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

An amateur astrophotographer from Uttarakhand has captured the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located 2.7 million ...

The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) exhibits a rich tapestry of stellar populations encompassing a central bulge, an extended thin and thick disc, and a complex halo studded with streams and shells. Studies of ...

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data shows structures and behavior that don’t fit neatly with existing models of how ...

Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what we know about the universe. Surely, any picture taken of, say, the ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...