In a new study published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics, scientists have unveiled a new mapping of the universe’s ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...
By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...
Virgil is the reddest Little Red Dot discovered so far, and its hidden black hole may offer a clue to the fate of this ...
R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...
Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...
Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

Nothingness and fullness

Scientists are mapping cosmic voids, vast empty spaces between galaxies. These regions are not truly empty. They contain ...
These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...
The best JWST images reveal galaxies, nebulae, and cosmic structures in stunning infrared clarity. These James Webb photos ...
New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...
Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...