But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

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 ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

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

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...

The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new mosaic of about 2.5 billion pixels yields ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...