Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

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

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

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

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 ...

Scientists have created the largest mosaic image of a galaxy 2.5 million lightyears away. The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

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