The two spiral arms winding towards the bright centre might deceive you into thinking you are looking at a galaxy a bit like our Milky Way. But the object starring in this image is of a different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: NASA/ESA) It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've ...

Most people associate the discovery that faraway galaxies are receding from us — and thus, that the universe is expanding — with Edwin Hubble, thanks to his landmark 1929 paper. It was one of the most ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

Astronomers combined Hubble's small-scale details of stellar death with Euclid's wide view of cosmic environments to take a closer look at the iconic Cat's Eye Nebula.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

Check out Astronomy.com’s interactive StarDome to see an accurate map of your sky. This tool will help you locate this week’s targets. This week’s small-telescope target is open cluster NGC 6067 in ...

Many scientific terms are very specific, but the term nebula is, well, nebulous. In a very generic sense, it simply means a fuzzy thing. But there are a wide variety of astronomical objects that can ...