An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...

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In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

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The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

Roughly 100 years ago, American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that “spiral nebulae” were actually independent galaxies, located millions of light years away from us. He also figured out that ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Matinees on the Mountain will bring sci-fi and astronomy-inspired movies to the Mount Wilson Observatory campus.

Even though it is the same age as the Milky Way, Hubble observations reveal that the stars in Andromeda's halo are much younger than those in the Milky Way. This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured ...