The Big Bang should be thought of as a "point" in time but not happening at a particular place. Astronomers will often say ...
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope back up previous findings from the Hubble telescope that contradict ...
This Webb image captured distinct star clusters in the Firefly Sparkle galaxy which formed 600 million years after the Big ...
Crab Nebula: This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 ...
A new image from NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5643, located approximately 40 ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
That’s an observation, made around a decade ago, that the universe seems to be expanding faster than it should be according ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...
Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...
An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...