As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

An exciting finding on a distant planet should also make us thankful for anyone who is doing the long, hard work of science.

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...