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

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

As such, we now also have the best reconstructed view of how our galaxy might look to an outside observer. This new artist impression of the Milky Way incorporates Gaia data from a multitude of ...