A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

Hubble captures forgotten globular cluster ESO 591-12 in rare detail ESO 591-12 sparkles with red and blue stars of varying ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our universe. But, if we went back 100 years instead, we would find most ...

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

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. ... American astronomer Edwin Hubble calculated in 1929 that galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way, All of them ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We are approaching Andromeda at roughly 250,000 miles per hour, and scientists have ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are part of a cluster of about 100 galaxies, held together by gravity, known as the "local group." For more than a century, scientists have known Andromeda is creeping ...

Hubble captured the data used to create this image of ESO 591-12 as part of a study intended to resolve individual stars of ...

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

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Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...