Join us today, Nov. 20, for Astronomy Unlocked, a virtual event focused on choosing your best telescope, complete with insight and tips from leading industry experts. Observing the wonders of the ...

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

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies ...

A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

Gravity can bend light and turn galaxies into natural telescopes. This video explains gravitational lensing and how it lets ...

Explore 25 universe mysteries scientists are still scratching their heads over, from dark matter to the Big Bang's secrets.

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The ...

A squad of new AI algorithms called GAME could help astrophysicists take a more accurate reading of the universe’s behavior, ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

Step back 1000 years, look up at the night sky and you might notice some extra dots of light compared with today. Back then, Chinese astronomers called these “guest stars” and believed them to be ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s faster than early-Universe models predict. By linking multiple ...