Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Dwarf galaxies are tough to find. They are small and give off very little light, often blending into the background of deep-space images. In the past, astronomers had to search for them manually ...

The collaboration measured the polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB ... about other objects in space, including the Milky Way, other galaxies, and galaxy clusters.

But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and other details. Webb is the largest and most powerful observatory ever launched into space. The Associated Press Health and Science ...

European Space Agency (ESA ... while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring." When the lensed object and the lensing object are perfectly ...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases ... distorting the image of a background galaxy along the line of sight towards Euclid. With the help of these models, Euclid ...