For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you look. This idea, called the Cosmological Principle, is a key assumption in ...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more ...

The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom ...

A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...