The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy.

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

A look at Edwin Hubble’s role in confirming that the Andromeda Galaxy lies beyond the Milky Way, helping expand our ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be deployed to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), some one million miles (1 ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright center is visible, is underway. The best viewing time in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way can be seen without special ...