Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...