Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

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

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.

The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part of the Milky Way, everything changed in 1923 when Edwin Hubble identified ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

The research team, led by Til Sawala from the University of Helsinki, used updated data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's Gaia mission. This information enabled more precise simulations of ...

In 2012, data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got more specific when it confirmed suspicions that the two galaxies are destined to collide in about four or five billion years. But an analysis of ...