In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

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Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Witness the awe-inspiring cosmic event of our Milky Way galaxy colliding with the Andromeda galaxy. Harvard sues the Trump ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Comets, which are composed of ice, frozen gas, dust and rocky material, are believed to be relics of the early solar system.

敦煌（Dunhuang）的沙粒总在讲述着不同寻常的故事。当城市少年们脱下球鞋换上徒步靴，将手机信号换成指北针刻度时，这片黄沙漫卷的戈壁就变成了天然的成长实验室。说来你可能不信，这里的沙丘（sand ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...