According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion ...

Ever wonder what it’d be like to fly through thousands of galaxies spanning back 13.2 billion years in time? Nearly every dot or smear of light you see is a galaxy imaged by NASA’s Hubble ...

This sparkling stunner brings astronomers one step closer to examining Cosmic Dawn, when the universe was just a few million ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

Even more surprises awaited them when they trained the near-infrared camera on vast, very dark patches of space known as “Hubble deep fields ... by a new wide-field camera installed on ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

A curious question sparked a cosmic deep dive into why light never tires—even after 25 million years on the move.

What it is: Thousands of galaxy groups from the early universe Where it is: 12 billion light-years away in the constellation Sextans When it was shared: April 29, 2025 Why it's so special: Sitting ...