This initiative is in turn driven by my frustration with the status quo, namely the notion of dark matter’s existence despite ...

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Webb may have captured the lightest exoplanet ever seen—an infant world shaping the dusty rings of a nearby young star. Its glow, nestled in a perfect gap in the debris, matches where astronomers ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the Big Bang Theory, the cosmic microwave background — microwave-range radiation that floats through the entire universe at a steady 2.7 Kelvin — is evidence that a hot ...

Stargazers can see the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first images from the largest camera ever built.

The world’s largest digital camera will drop its first photo dump Monday, offering an unprecedented view of space.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.