Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

Few galaxies are really bright and oriented almost exactly edge-on to our line of sight. One of these is NGC 5907: the ...

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The Hubble is a “glowing success story of America’s technological prowess”, says NASA. Among its long list of breakthroughs, Hubble’s deep field observations in 1995 captured roughly 3,000 distant ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

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Using fast radio bursts, astronomers have finally located the universe’s missing ordinary matter across billions of ...

Rapid bursts of energy that last milliseconds but emit as much energy as the sun does in decades are helping astronomers ...

A vast, glowing halo enveloping a galaxy cluster has been discovered, defying expectations and pointing to turbulent cosmic ...

A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive ...

The vast majority of matter in the universe is dark-it is entirely invisible and detected only through its gravitational ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...