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

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

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Scientists used images from NASA's WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Explorer, mission, to spot the object. It has been named CWISE J1249 and it's zooming out of the Milky Way galaxy. "I can't describe ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space ... But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ...

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

Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. The Milky Way Galaxy ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

The Milky Way is not considered an active galaxy—at least, not right now—but according to NASA it likely experienced a "burst of activity" within the past few million years. By far the most ...