Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

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ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

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A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

This image provided by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ...

Chinese and foreign astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in dark energy research, offering fresh insights into the ...