The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the ...

Observations with the South Pole Telescope have revealed an independent addition to the biggest problem in cosmology.

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

I’ve used this fact a gazillion times; every atom in your body has been through the core of a star! The carbon in our bones ...

Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s ...

A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The quasars were powered by a pair of supermassive black holes on a ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...