Captured in mid-2006 by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, NGC 1275 reveals an extraordinary lace-like structure of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured its clearest image yet of the Antennae Galaxies, thanks to major improvements from servicing missions that enhanced earlier photos taken in 1997 and 2006.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most puzzling astronomical phenomena. These brief yet intense bursts of radio waves, ...

Chinese scientists have proposed the idea of establishing a radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon. According to ...

The Antennae Galaxies are filled with black holes and neutron stars, speeding up the process of star formation and change. Saturn's rings, first observed by Galileo 400 years ago, have since become ...

The space observatory can effectively peer back in time to the beginning of a mysterious era called Cosmic Dawn, or the first few hundred million years after the big bang when the first galaxies ...

NEW YORK — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. The images and other information released Wednesday by the ...

What just happened? The European Space Agency's Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data this week, providing a glimpse of hundreds of thousands of galaxies in diverse shapes and ...

The survey data, released March 19, includes initial scans of three regions that Euclid will observe regularly, as well as detailed classifications of more than 380,000 galaxies — a mere 0.4% of ...

This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe. Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known ...

The finding, along with other mounting evidence, has rocked the research community, challenging prior thinking that galaxies this long ago — when the universe was only two percent its age of 13. ...

The detection is prompting astronomers to rethink how quickly stars and galaxies formed in the young universe.