The Andromeda galaxy, our cosmic neighbor, is far more turbulent than previously thought. A new survey by the Hubble Space ...
Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce ...
When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...
An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...
NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...
The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, ...
Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...
The mission will help us uncover how early galaxies formed and where the building blocks of life are located in the Milky Way.
The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.
Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...