Astronomers have discovered over a thousand photos of asteroids that had been hiding in Hubble images, unnoticed until now.

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems ... Leavitt studied photographic plates from telescope observations of another galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud carried ...

Hubble had found that two spiral-shaped nebulae, objects made up of gas and stars, which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way. Combined with complementary state-of-the-art ...

Doctor Ken Wishaw is a hero of many forms.As a doctor, anaesthetist, Australia's first full-time helicopter rescue doctor, ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of the Swelling ...

US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera has captured imagery of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 and its neighbor ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

That's because millions of years ago, the smaller spiral galaxy on the left, IC 2163, slowly crept behind the larger spiral galaxy on the right, NGC 2207. Because of their close encounter ...