The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope photographs a rare Einstein ring, a cosmic deception formed by gravitational lensing, giving ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

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