The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

With new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

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 ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ultimately lead to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a seemingly infinite ocean of galaxies. He thought that ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

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