A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, shaking up our understanding of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a powerful cosmic outlier that may hold clues to the Milky Way’s long-term fate. At the heart of a ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of oxygen.

"Our data indicates that the Universe will expand forever, and at an accelerating rate," said Sehgal, who analyzed data ...

Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Many galaxies are visible in this deep field exposure, and its just a part of a larger mosaic, zoomed in 16 times.

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.