Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
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 ...
Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion ...
The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...