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.

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

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

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 ...

An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” galaxies in the early universe.

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 ...

A more colorful image of space will help us unravel the universe's mysteries NASA's ambitious SPHEREx mission will, for the first time, provide an unprecedented, colorful representation of the ...

(Photo by dlsdkcgl from Pixabay) Crucially, this map allowed them to measure the “gravitational ... to help scientists ...

A team of astronomers using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey has modeled the hot gas in our local stellar neighborhood, ...