In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

Scientists have predicted for a while now that the fate of the Milky Way galaxy will result in a collision with our neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Of course, we don’t expect that collision to ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

Here’s how it works. Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals stunning details about the Andromeda galaxy, shedding light on its complex evolution, ...

à la the fate that will eventually befall the Milky Way and Andromeda. In September 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured this collision in progress between an elliptical galaxy and a ...

Let's explore the seven best images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2024. This composite image of the Crab ...