Our planet Earth is part of a solar system located in the Milky Way Galaxy. Many other galaxies are situated millions of light years away from our home. The National Aeronautics and Space ...
Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...
In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies ... Charles Messier also produced a catalog of ...
Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...
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 ...