The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

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Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Witness the awe-inspiring cosmic event of our Milky Way galaxy colliding with the Andromeda galaxy. Harvard sues the Trump ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

The beauty spot has been named as one of the top destinations in the UK to immerse yourself in 'nature's paradise' and has ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.