The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
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 ...
Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...
Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.
New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...
A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...