Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda ...

Science News: The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted MoM z14. It is the most distant galaxy ever seen. This galaxy existed 280 million years after the Big Bang.

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope is the most distant and earliest galaxy ever spotted existing just 300 million years (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

In thelatest release from NASA, stunning new images of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) have captured the attention of the global scientific community. Andromeda, located around 2.5 million light-years from ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question, astronomers say.

Still, launching telescopes into space is a lot of trouble and expense. Official work on Hubble started in the 1970s, but delays kept it on the ground for decades.