High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...