NASA's advanced observatories have unveiled the Milky Way's hidden beauty, from its dense core with a supermassive black hole ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see stars, most of which are relatively close: less than 5,000 light-years from ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 7456. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker While it may appear as just another spiral galaxy among billions in the universe, this image from the ...

As the sun sets, the Summer Triangle is straight overhead. To the north, the Big Dipper dominates as always, its cup sitting nearly parallel to the horizon late in the evening. Malan is astronomy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an unfathomable amount of data and allowed for never-before-imagined exploration ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the asymmetric spiral galaxy Messier 96. Messier 96 is a spiral galaxy located in the ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director of the observatory, astrophysicist George Ellery Hale. Good timing for ...