Astrophotography offers a breathtaking window into the universe, capturing moments that often remain unseen by the naked eye.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. One of our closest galactic neighbors shows its awesome beauty in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their surroundings. The lopsided ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

Dwingeloo 1, a barred spiral galaxy in Cassiopeia, remained undetected until 1994 due to significant obscuration by interstellar dust within our own galaxy. Its discovery was facilitated by the ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

An illustration shows a stage in the potential merger between the Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as viewed in Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years. Andromeda (left) fills ...

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Ruby Wright receives funding from the Forrest Research Foundation. Alexander Rawlings receives funding from the University of Helsinki Research Foundation and the European Research Council. For years, ...