The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Hubble just spotted a ravenous black hole 174 million times the Sun’s mass inside UGC 11397. Buried in cosmic dust, it’s ...

These observations reveal that galaxies first formed thick, chaotic disks, and only later developed the calm, thin disks seen in modern spirals like the Milky Way. The figures illustrate the revealed ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

The Sombrero Galaxy is too faint to see with the naked eye but easily visible through a modest amateur telescope, appearing ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has once again provided astronomers with invaluable insights into the mysteries of the universe.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...