New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

The Euclid mission aims to learn more about dark matter and dark energy from the large-scale structure of the cosmic web.

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Cosmic sparkle: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was potentially a brown dwarf—a cosmic body with the makings of a star that ...

Today, LOLtron examines Space Ghost #10, hitting stores on Wednesday. "Space Ghost doesn't kill!" In this issue: A dark and shocking figure from the future emerges, presenting a new yet ...

The network “is the coolest citizen science project I’ve ever seen,” says Jon Vandegriff, a space physics data scientist ... a list of transitory cosmic objects that can be seen in different ...