"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new ...

Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...

Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that ...