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 ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in 102 colors. This affordable $488 million mission aims to explore cosmic ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible ... a galaxy nearly twice the size of the Milky Way. Galactic collisions occur frequently in the universe, but the researchers ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard ... which is what the Milky Way looks like to the naked eye in a very dark sky. Roman will stare toward ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that ... stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.