In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared a mesmerising video on Thursday. The footage, captured by the Hubble telescope, highlights the Tarantula Nebula. This fascinating region lies in the Large ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...

We can get a peek into that neighboring dwarf galaxy - which is only about 15% the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about 160,000 light years away.

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... you can calculate its distance from how bright it appears using the inverse square law. The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears.

Manchester United legend Edwin van der Sar has expressed his excitement ahead of watching his former two sides play against each other in the Premier League. "Today I will be at Craven Cottage to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still trucking along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending home images for us to marvel at. This week, NASA and ESA highlighted an ...