A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

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Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared ... effort to make ...

Scientists have taken the clearest-ever images of the universe when it was just 380,000 years old—essentially a baby picture ...

Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment has produced ...

Less than one per cent of Australia's SKA-Low telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ...