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 ...

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

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

This breathtaking close-up of the Andromeda galaxy’s core was captured by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope. This image of the Andromeda Galaxy is based on data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space ...