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 ...

The Mass Effect series is an epic sci-fi universe that can’t be contained to just video games. Some of the best expanded universe stories take place in the Mass Effect comics that cover ...

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

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Hubble observations of the galaxy’s age, mass of stars and heavy-element abundance ... our latest southern half observations," said Chen. "Andromeda's a train wreck — it looks like it has ...

In the middle of the nebula are enormous stars that are as much as 200 times the mass of ... that our galaxy produces far more stars compared to another nearby galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy.

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

star mass, and heavy-element composition, which will assist in developing and testing various galaxy evolution theories. These models anticipate distinct patterns and properties throughout the two ...

This image provides valuable data to study Andromeda's turbulent history, including its mergers with smaller satellite galaxies. Researchers aim to use Hubble's observations of star age, mass, and ...

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