Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable tool for astronomers in unraveling the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

Joseph Shavit The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal ...

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The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier 101 is one of the biggest and brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Like the Milky Way, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye toward a ghostly swirl of stars and gas known as the "Lost Galaxy," given its faint and elusive appearance to stargazers. More scientifically, this ...

A major survey verifies 3,500 gravitational lenses, offering new tools to map dark matter and track cosmic expansion.

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Month image. IC 486 ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark ...

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days. Using a ...

A team of cosmologists in China has introduced a mathematical framework that investigates two of the deepest mysteries in cosmology at the same time. Publishing their research in The Astrophysical ...

The researchers found Candidate Dark Galaxy-2, or CDG-2, using the Hubble Space Telescope, and they believe it’s made of at least 99.9% dark matter. If their finding is backed by further observations, ...