Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

“This ambitious photography of the Andromeda galaxy sets a new benchmark for precision studies of large spiral galaxies,” Chen said. Though the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies formed ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent ... Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble to photograph the northern half of Andromeda.