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 ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals stunning details about the Andromeda galaxy, shedding light on its complex evolution, ...

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

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 ...

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

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope revealed the Milky Way’s hidden center, using infrared to uncover its dense, star-packed core. This ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...