Sounds of Big Bang' Shed New Light on Milky Way Galaxy's Uncanny Home Most of the astronomical objects are identified by ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope looks into center of vast galaxy cluster almost 9 billion light-years away The galaxy cluster has caused background galaxies to be gravitationally lensed ...

A stunning halo of light in a nearby galaxy has been captured by Europe's Euclid space telescope. Known as the "Einstein ring," the halo exists in a galaxy about 590 million light-years away, with ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

The galaxy it encircles (NGC 6505) is around 590 million light-years from Earth. The background galaxy from which the light emanates, at 4.42 billion light years, is much farther away. That galaxy, ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time By Tom Metcalfe edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The Carousel Lens ( center ) bends ...

The James Webb Telescope has photographed what appears to be an undiscovered planet, previously obscured by dust and ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a cosmic hat. ... Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, ... as well as more stars and galaxies in the background.