After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

For over a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope meticulously observed our closest galactic neighbor, capturing over 1,000 ...

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) captures a tiny patch of sky in the Fornax constellation, revealing thousands of galaxies, some over 13 billion years old. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dust and gas in the constellation ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

Astronomers have photographed a unique thread in the cosmic web that connects two galaxies that existed when the Universe was ...

A Euclid space telescope has spotted a rare halo of bright light known as an "Einstein Ring" in a galaxy not so far, far away ...

Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

Lying on the beach in Antigua, I stared up into the night sky, dazzled by the stars. A normal person would just sit back and ...