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

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

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

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

From starry skies and urban sights to mysterious wilderness, noctourism is about discovering the magic of exploration by ...

This monumental project involved more than 600 snapshots and required over 1,000 Hubble orbits, showcasing the intricate beauty and complexity of Messier 31.

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the Milky Way, Hubble spotted the hallmarks of a past collision: the presence of ...

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