The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a stunning image of the Abell 209 galaxy cluster, located 2.8 billion ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

The photos show light, dark and the polarization of light—background radiation known as the cosmic microwave background, and details the movement of hydrogen and helium gas at the beginning of ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ...

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

Evidence is mounting that cosmic dark energy, long thought constant, may weaken with time - potentially altering the fate of ...

A new half-sky image from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope combines three wavelengths of light to show the Milky Way galaxy in purple and the cosmic microwave background in gray. On the right, the ...

Using antennae, scientists first identified the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s. Since then physicists have built more and more sophisticated instruments to capture increasingly better images ...

These images show the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the oldest energy observable in the universe. The scientists' observations are even more detailed than those captured by the Plank space ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ...