Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

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 ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye - due to its sheer size. It is home to roughly one trillion stars, which make it visible to Earth when ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a massive panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is situated just over 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and is ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.