The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has collected targeted images to answer specific scientific questions ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture of the jet launching region." ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...