The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

By Kat Troche As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the Milky Way each evening: Scorpius the Scorpion. One of the […] ...

Hubble’s paper provided the best evidence to date of the more expansive view. According to Hubble’s calculations, the only two spirals visible to the naked eye—the Andromeda Nebula (also known as ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer recently unveiled a stunning image of the Rho Ophiuchi stellar nursery and Messier 4 globular cluster, taken during a Texas stargazing event.

Hubble celebrates 35 years by revisiting the magnificent Sombrero Galaxy in a new image The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the ...

As part of Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, astronomers have obtained a stunning new image of a rich collection of scattered stars called Messier 72.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a towering structure of billowing gas in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). The pillar rises 9.5 light-years tall and is 7,000 light-years away from ...