This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

There are plenty of awesome objects in the universe, made more marvelous by scientists’ ability to image and understand the laws and processes that make them possible. Each year, researchers make new ...

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

Comet C/2025 A6 — also known as Lemmon — will make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday night, Oct. 21, and will continue ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday. If dark energy is ...

Kepler-452b is one of the most Earth-like planets ever discovered, orbiting a star much like our Sun. Located over 1,400 ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of what’s out there. By Dennis Overbye Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who ...