Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic ...

The newly released Euclid images hint at the large-scale organization of galaxies in what is known as the cosmic web, ...

CU Boulder researchers found massive, dust-filled galaxies called UFOs using JWST, challenging previous galaxy formation ...

New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped ...

Cutting-edge UK research, involving Newcastle University scientists, is benefiting the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.