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

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

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

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...