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

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

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

"You can’t do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away ...

Weisz continues: “Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that’s between a star ... Its stated mission is to search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing as ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars. When you purchase ...