Discover the stunning 2500-megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda, created from 600 Hubble photos, showcasing the telescope's ...

Mars was at opposition as Earth passed by it in our faster, inner orbit. Mars is still very bright and will continue to be so ...

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 ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

Six or seven billion years ago, most stars formed in super star clusters. That type of star formation has largely died out ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a ...

Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...

The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...