The two spiral arms winding towards the bright centre might deceive you into thinking you are looking at a galaxy a bit like our Milky Way. But the object starring in this image is of a different ...

See views of The Horsehead Nebula, the Perseus Cluster of galaxies, spiral galaxy IC 342, irregular galaxy NGC 6822 and globular cluster NGC 6397. IMAGE CREDIT: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, ...

Astronomers have observed IC 418 for 130 years and discovered that the temperature of its central star is rising at an ...

Turn your eyes toward the night sky and you will see a bright, hazy band of light cutting across the sky. For millennia, observers speculated about the Milky Way’s true nature. The Greeks said the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A ...

Vesto Slipher first observed that galaxies are moving away from us. Edwin Hubble later showed a relationship between galaxy distance and speed. Hubble's work relied heavily on Slipher's earlier data.

Many scientific terms are very specific, but the term nebula is, well, nebulous. In a very generic sense, it simply means a fuzzy thing. But there are a wide variety of astronomical objects that can ...

Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at a perfect distance from the sun for life to flourish, but it is too small to easily ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

We're used to seeing spiral galaxies in deep space, but other types of outer-space spirals are positively spooky. Astronomers say that this whirligig, more than 3,000 light-years away in the ...