How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

This sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young ... have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they ...

Hubble peered deep into space and there ... our own Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, but we have a few billion years before we have to worry about that.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

What we now know as the Andromeda Galaxy was then considered to be just a big cloud of nebulosity. That all changed in the 1920s when Edwin Hubble and his assistant Henrietta Leavitt discovered ...