ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...