Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The SPHEREx space telescope, launching in February 2025, will map the cosmos in infrared light, helping scientists understand ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...