This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

SpaceX is developing a revolutionary new engine that could push human space travel beyond the Milky Way. If successful, this technology might be the first step toward intergalactic exploration ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

The researchers used data from a variety of sources to hunt for previously undetected galaxies hiding in a region of space called the Fornax Cluster. The Fornax Cluster is a, well, cluster of ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn ... depth investigation of J2345-0449 using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, astronomers are now revealing these distant, dim worlds—some no bigger ...

The Euclid space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency in July 2023, is changing the game. Euclid is designed to observe one-third of the sky in both visible and near-infrared light.