Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

This suggests planetary formation follows the evolution of a galaxy with a ring of planet ... can migrate to the outer regions of the Milky Way, it gives a better focus on the hunt for planetary ...