Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a compound lens.

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

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

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Particle detectors are to particle physicists as telescopes are to astronomers. They allow us to open a window into the inner workings of the Universe at the smallest length scales to understand it in ...

By Mekado Murphy ‘Conclave’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Edward Berger narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Ralph Fiennes. By Mekado Murphy ‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene ...

NASA telescopes have captured two ghastly galaxies that look like a creepy pair of staring “blood-soaked” eyes floating in space. The spiral galaxies, which are located 114 million light-years from ...