Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Controversial new findings have reignited the longstanding cosmological quarrel involving what astronomers call the "Hubble ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...
The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...