We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

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 ...

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...