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

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

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...