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

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled a stunning new image from the farthest reaches of space. This groundbreaking image ...

A mix of familiar events and films, a live talk about dark matter and a “Dome After Dark” audiovisual/musical performance dot ...

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

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 ...

New research, published today in Nature Astronomy ... very first stars formed from the hydrogen and helium that filled the universe after the Big Bang. These suns weren’t in galaxies ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...