Spectacular scenes show two galaxies having a ‘cosmic joust’. Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent space collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation.

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New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. ... The image shows the cosmic microwave background radiation visible 380,000 years after the ...

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

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

If the universe had holes—and therefore also loops—this fact should be reflected in the data of the cosmic background radiation. Yet in searches from the 2000s and 2010s, experts found nothing.

This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic radiation left behind by the Big Bang—has given astronomers insights into the birth of the universe and helped shape the ...

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say previously undetected clouds of hydrogen gas could finally reveal it.