Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

The first images from the observatory will be published on 23 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering a "peek at the cosmos" with an array of ...

A new image of cosmic microwave background radiation (half-sky image at left, closeup at right) adds high definition from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to an earlier image from the Planck satellite.