A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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

The universe is vast and our journey to understand it has just begun.

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

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really ... distances in the cosmos.. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way ... Space Telescope has pushed the envelope even farther. The current record holder is a galaxy ...