A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

That's because Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. This is like trying to ... tilted by 77 degrees relative to the view we see from Earth. The galaxy is so large that the mosaic is assembled ...

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

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

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...