In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

A recent NASA report suggests that countless tiny particles could be coming together to create an invisible, foam-like dark matter right in the middle of our ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire ... astronomers would know much less about the structure and evolution of our own Milky Way. "With Hubble we can get ...