A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
A groundbreaking event has been held for a $200 million state-of-the-art space research facility at the Johnson Space Center ...
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
“The discovery meant that these galaxies [had to be] older than the age of the universe, which is physically impossible,” ...
Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first ...
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...
Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...
The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.
The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...
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