The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae, it became clear that the Milky Way was only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others. This was the birth of our modern ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have ... team behind the research ...

Galaxies may be anchored to giant "dark stars" — clumps of invisible matter sitting at their cores, new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of evidence that most of the mass in ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

New research suggests that most ... part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy. When you purchase through links ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...

new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of evidence that most of the mass in any given galaxy is invisible, they do not yet know the identity of this "dark matter." ...