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 ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

A type of game that spans multiple genres and is also well-represented in Microsoft's subscription service is the ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, also informally known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy 2.7 million light-years from Earth ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...