Cosmologists are unraveling a perplexing mystery: the universe appears to be expanding faster than predicted. Known as the ...
Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.
Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...