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

One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, obscuring disk of gas and dust marauds in front of it.

In 2025, one might assume that all types of stars in the Milky Way have been cataloged, yet the universe continues to surprise us. In 1953, American astronomer Alan Sandage revolutionized our ...

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

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

He’d let me move the telescope around a bit, and I could ask questions. And he was always wonderful to share information with ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a rare "blue lurker" star spinning at astonishing speeds after ...

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

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...