As a result of Hubble's work, our perception of mankind's place in the Universe has changed forever: humans have once again ...

On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

NASA today is celebrating the birthday of Edwin Hubble - the man who inspired the Hubble Telescope. Born on November 20, 1889 ...

Hubble spots a pair: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made an unexpected and rare discovery, a pair of gravitationally bound ...

Edwin Hubble is celebrated as one of the 20th century's most influential cosmologists, renowned for his pivotal contributions ...

Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) was a groundbreaking astronomer whose work transformed our understanding of the cosmos. Known as the ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy, just a tenth of the Milky Way’s mass. It is about 160,000 light years away, which is remarkably close in cosmic terms. In the southern hemisphere it spans ...

While the world of astrology is abuzz with the apparent movement of the dwarf planet Pluto, I want to talk about Andromeda, ...

Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough ...

The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...