A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black ...

NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 showed a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million ...

Using the Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have performed radio observations of a galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and thick dust lanes forming its spiral structure. Viewed nearly edge-on from Earth ...

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.