It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

The James Webb space telescope looks further back in the universe than any other instrument. Now a baffling puzzle has been ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The spiral galaxy UGC 5460 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 5460 sits about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

NGC 5042 is a breathtaking spiral galaxy showcasing a brilliant mix of ancient stars, young blue clusters, and vibrant pink H ...

By combining data from visible light telescopes like Hubble and infrared telescopes like Webb, scientists are able to see both the dusty objects which exist throughout our galaxy and beyond ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that ... three gravitationally bound bodies move through space together. This puzzle, known as the "three-body problem," has been a challenge since ...

is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way — but it seems to have evolved in a much different way, new Hubble data suggests. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An ambitious new survey by the Hubble ...