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

"Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

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

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

The Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda, and all our respective ... Galaxies like GLASS-Z12 can be so far away because the universe itself is expanding. Scientists first discovered this due to a ...