Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

The astronomical panorama is a major accomplishment because Andromeda is the “closest” large galaxy to ours, at a distance of 2.5 million light years away — equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...