Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

Astronomers have pushed the recorded history of the Milky Way roughly 1.8 billion years farther into the past, uncovering evidence of a dwarf galaxy that collided with the young Milky Way in the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named ...

Artist’s impression: This photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. About 3.75 billion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we look at a typical galaxy, we can see bright stars at its center. As your eyes move outward from the center, the ...

From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, with the spiral arms and their dust clouds forming a narrow band. Credit: ESO ...

Newswise — Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). A team of astronomers led by European ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson ...