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

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

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

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 ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...

The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Samsung will host its latest Galaxy Unpacked launch event later this month, and the Samsung community will get it first look at the presumptively named Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra.

In September 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured this collision in progress between an elliptical ... Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaître discovered that light from distant galaxies ...