By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky ...

Amazon’s push to blanket the planet with high speed internet from orbit is colliding with a very different vision of the ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

Dr Gavin Leroy, co-lead author at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, said: "By revealing dark matter with unprecedented precision, our map shows how an invisible component of ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...