How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

Look up at the sky, any reasonably dark night. Hundreds of stars are visible, at any one time, to the naked eye. Nearly all ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...