In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

Hubble's work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble's pioneering work, ...

The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.