The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. Kelly Hubble’s latest portrait zooms into Abell 209, a colossal galaxy cluster 2.8 ...

Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have captured an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy, which they say ...