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.

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

Scientists test the famous physicist’s predictions by calculating the distortion of time and space. Why is the expansion of ...

For less than $400, it's possible to observe places like the star-forming regions at the center of our galaxy.

November's full moon will be Friday night as the last consecutive supermoon in 2024. It's called the beaver moon, and ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1998. This phenomenon, one of the ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

Indeed, galaxies are now understood to be the building blocks of the universe. The European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). However, this new map ...