In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In just 30 seconds I captured the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way ... these photos. First up, the obvious: you need a smartphone. I won't go into step-by-step set-up details for each make ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a finding researchers said could reveal details about how ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way ... as shown in the photo above. A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble ... findings could also shed light on the Milky Way's future because our galaxy is predicted to potentially collide ...

The telescope's size let it make images of very faint ... were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from ...