NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a galaxy far, far away. So far, in fact, that it is the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. NASA announced Thursday that researchers had ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Fulfilling one of its central operational goals in a big way, the Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile made the first observations of the glowing ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

The size and age of our Universe is not only a critically important issue in cosmology, but is also among the most controversial and delicate of the cosmological questions. Infrared observations made ...

EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The newest record-holder has had its light redshifted by a whopping ...

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