These powerful instruments unveiled an astonishing truth: The Milky Way is not a mere collection of stars but a galaxy with a ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure and several spiral arms extending from the center. The galaxy has a dense central bulge around the Galactic Center ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

Think of its second V-shape as an arrow ... Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy, but the distance between the two local giants may not ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object ... this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy -- at ...