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

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

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

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

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

First, however, we need to figure out where this jet in the Hubble Telescope image came from in the first place. Jets like these are known to erupt from elliptical galaxies that have been sculpted ...

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

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.