In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of gravitational waves in 2016, astronomers had developed fundamental frameworks in ...

Scientists observed SN 2004et and SN2017eaw, located on opposite sides of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, using the infrared imaging capabilities of the James Webb Space ...

Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists. Using powerful telescopes to split the galaxies' light into individual ...

Image of galaxy ESO 185-IG013 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of NASA Feb. 2 (UPI) --NASA released new images from the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday with rare images of two ...

Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows an irregular galaxy, the spindly arms and clawed shape of which has led to it being named the Spider Galaxy. Located 30 million light-years away ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest known black hole in the universe. Nestled within a glowing red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years and provides a ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...