Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...

Astronomers aren’t sure why the difference exists. To make stars, galaxies of any size need large reservoirs of cold gas. Even for large galaxies, the availability of such reservoirs varies with ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...

A European dark matter telescope called Euclid has released its first treasure trove of data, showing galaxies by the ...

Galaxies typically begin from huge gas clouds that collapse and rotate, filling with young stars that are largely ... and lead author of the Astronomy & Astrophysics study, in a statement.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.