Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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 ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

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Stunning visuals took over the night skyline above Shoreditch as Londoners were treated to an incredible display massive 50ft ...

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the ...

Prior to that 1915 discovery, scientists believed that all the stars in the night sky belonged to a single galaxy, and they had no concept of the scale of the wider universe. But in the century ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...