A research team from the USA is convinced that new data from two space telescopes resolve the stubborn discrepancy in ...

"We are not witnessing the birth of everything from nothing, but rather the continuation of a cosmic cycle," said Professor Enrique Gaztanaga.

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

William H. Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, ...

The size of the universe is a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries. From ancient astronomers to modern scientists, the quest to understand the true scale of space has led to ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

NGC 520 is a bright and highly distorted galaxy in the constellation Pisces, discovered by William Herschel in 1784.

The brainchild of George Ellery Hale, the 200-inch Hale Telescope was dedicated June 3, 1948, at Palomar Observatory in ...

The popular name for this object is a misnomer; it’s actually a galaxy, and was identified as such by the 1930s, in the era when Edwin Hubble was working through the initial classification of ...