A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

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

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

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

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

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Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...