The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a corner of the Universe.

The telescope will create a decade-long, high-resolution movie of the universe. It will generate about 20 terabytes of data per day, the equivalent of three years streaming Netflix, piling up some ...