"Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Let's explore the seven best images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2024. This composite image of the Crab ...

Take a look at our favorite space pictures here ... captured a stunning image of zodiacal light and our home galaxy, the Milky Way, from the International Space Station (ISS).

The stunning spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are beautifully showcased by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA's ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

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 ...

The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way captured by the JWST ... amateur astronomers alike with everything from spectacular pictures of nebulae and colliding galaxies to images of some ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...