For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, identifying three mysterious ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

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Edwin Hubble is celebrated as one of the 20th century's most influential cosmologists, renowned for his pivotal contributions ...

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The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) differs dramatically from our local solar neighbourhood, both in the extreme ...

Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) was a groundbreaking astronomer whose work transformed our understanding of the cosmos. Known as ...

Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence ...