Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Known as the cosmic microwave background, the microwaves are a relic from a time when the universe was first cooling down ...

Missions like the Gaia Project seek to map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way and even the visible Universe. And observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope can resolve tiny ...

Galaxies and galaxy clusters are not uniformly distributed throughout the universe; rather, they congregate into vast clusters interspersed with enormous voids where very few galaxies exist. The ...

Carried into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the telescope is set to explore the origins of the universe and map hidden reservoirs of water in the Milky Way. Short for 'Spectro-Photometer for the ...

Every six months of its initial two-year mission, SPHEREx will generate a complete three-dimensional map of the universe in the highest colour resolution ever captured, out to a distance of 10 ...

or what sparked the universe to increase in size by a trillion-trillionfold nearly instantaneously after the big bang. The observatory will create a map of the sky in 102 colors of infrared light ...