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A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a crowded nursery where massive stars are being forged at a furious pace. The ...

Using James Webb Space Telescope data, scientists have created the most detailed map of dark matter, revealing the cosmic web and early galaxy formation.

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers announced ...

"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still trucking along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending home images for us to marvel at. This week, NASA and ESA highlighted an image ...

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to study ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...