After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

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

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 ...

Professor James Binney, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the Royal ...

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

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral ... astronomers would know much less ...

Was it merely a nearby “spiral nebula,” a swirling cloud of gas and dust within the Milky Way? Or was it something more? The answer arrived in the early 20th century, thanks to the work of Edwin ...