The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

In the century since Hubble's pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... years or roughly 25 Milky Way diameters. In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers ...

“One of Hubble’s lasting achievements will be how it showed the public the wonders of the universe,” Kenneth Sembach, an astronomer at the Space Telescope ... the Milky Way, per the NASA ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

said the independent space agency. Without Andromeda, astronomers would know much less about the structure and evolution of our own Milky Way. "With Hubble we can get into enormous detail about ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... much smaller than the space between them. Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious.