Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

If you're looking for something to do Memorial Day weekend and into May, here's how to spot a band of stars comprising the ...

An edge-on disk of gas and dust around a young star a thousand light-years away spans nearly 400 billion miles. New Hubble ...

After 40+ years of development, design, construction, and delays, the Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, on ...

Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic “flip” hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers ...

A selection of celestial photographs will be on the display in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s atrium starting ...

The gorgeous astrophotographs highlight the dazzling night sky and remind viewers what we risk losing to light pollution ...

The new image shows the galaxy NGC 1266, a transitional object with a clutch of young stars that likely collided with a ...

Look closer at the NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1266, and you could mistake it for a spiral galaxy. There is a ...

A mysterious galaxy with a bright center and a face that suggests spiral structure but lacks visible spiral arms has been ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral ...