The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

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 ...

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

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.