Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a groundbreaking technique that transforms 2D radio images into 3D ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

A major realization of Einstein’s general relativity is the fact that massive objects warp space-time in a way that is ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe three early ultra-massive galaxies, formed shortly after the ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...