Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...

I’ve always loved looking up at the night sky. Even though I didn’t pursue science in college, the outer world has never stopped fascinating me, because that endless stretch above us makes everything ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae painted in colors that defy earthly imagination, and stars that burn with the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of these violent bundles of gas and stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million galaxies in stunning detail.

What can galaxies smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about dark matter, which remains one of the most mysterious substances in the universe? This is what a recent study published in ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped the intense tails of a cosmic jellyfish. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...