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

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

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 intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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

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

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 ...

Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, though researchers continue to investigate its exact structure ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...