Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have made one of the most precise independent measurements ...

Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

A virtual event, "Astronomy Unlocked: How to Choose Your Best Telescope," is scheduled for November 20, 2025, at 9:00 am EST, designed to provide a comprehensive guide to selecting astronomical ...