Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung stars. This iconic “Mexican hat” quietly forms almost no new stars while ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

If dark matter is creating positrons in the CMZ, those particles will eventually slow down and eventually annihilate with electrons in the environment, producing gamma-rays at exactly 511keV energy.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process called reionization.

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered evidence of “hidden galaxies,” a population of faint, dust-shrouded galaxies that could reshape our understanding of the universe. These galaxies, detected through ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...