The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

What would a bucket full of deep space contain? Richard LivitskiSeal Beach, California One would think that this excellent ...

In addition to the double ring, the program found two other examples. In RAD J122622.6+640622, astronomers saw a galaxy nearly 3 million light-years across. One of the jets shooting out of its core ...

"I was an avid photographer as an adult (mainly wildlife and landscapes) but always marvelled at images of deep space objects ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. In a newly ...

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

A second deep space antenna opened in a tiny monastic town in Western Australia could help unlock the secrets of the universe ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...

"Galaxy Lights," Space Center Houston’s space-themed holiday light show, has returned with new, out-of-this-galaxy ...