The iPhone 16 has a similar main camera as the iPhone 16 Pro Max, so I spent an evening using it for astrophotography to ...

The universe’s light-starved early epochs, as well as the first stars and galaxies, lie beyond the reach of conventional ...

Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form.

Galaxies in the present-day Universe fall into two broad categories. There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, which are ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope ...