The Bullseye is now confirmed to have nine rings, eight of which are visible to Hubble. Researchers confirmed the existence ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto) ...

Night-sky tourism, or "noctourism," is set to be a major travel driver this coming year, Booking.com predicts. Why it matters ...

The Milky Way stands out above the Sandia Mountains and the lights of greater Albuquerque, Photo by Jim Stein.BY WILLIAM PRIEDHORSKYLos Alamos Mountaineers At the January 28 Mountaineers meeting, ...

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 Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Hubble captures largest Andromeda galaxy photomosaic 200 million stars revealed in Andromeda’s stunning image Insights into Andromeda's mergers and star-forming history ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was necessitated by ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...