Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

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

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

The Register has assembled plenty of space-based Lego sets over the years, including official Apollo-based items from Lego itself to sets designed by enthusiasts. All were a delight to construct, ...

Samsung will host its latest Galaxy Unpacked launch event later this month, and the Samsung community will get it first look at the presumptively named Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra.

But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed ... by no less than two to one; the Hubble project gives a conservative ...