If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

For decades, the ΛCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) cosmological model has been the cornerstone of our understanding of the ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

The James Webb Telescope has discovered a gigantic galaxy in the early universe, probably from 12 billion years ago.

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...