The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our universe. But, if we went back 100 years instead, we would find most ...

The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...

"The biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had made an error," said Achenbach, who made the discovery during the ...