A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...
Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...
The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.
A stronomers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to find hundreds of "anomalies" in data from the Hubble Telescope. More ...
Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...
NASA’s most powerful probe, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted the farthest galaxy ever recorded, making a historic ...
A sliver of space where scientists found Segue 1, a faint dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light-years away, in 2006. Credit: Marla Geha / W.M. Keck Observatory It started with a homework assignment: A ...
Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...
Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away suggest much more energetic early ...
Discover why astronomy and cosmology are the universe's mapmakers. Discover how scientists trace galaxies, the cosmic web, and the large-scale architecture of our entire existence in three dimensions ...
The Hubble Space Telescope photographed the pair, known as ESO 593-8, located around 650 million light-years away.
Key Takeaways: Early 20th-century cosmology transitioned from galactic astronomy with Edwin Hubble's discovery of external galaxies and the universe's expansion, which Albert Einstein's general ...