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

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

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

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

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

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...