HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

Over 30 years of discoveries, the Hubble Telescope has captured galaxies like never before—uncovering secrets of their formation, evolution, and beauty. Get ready to be amazed by the universe's ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...