The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation. Many galaxy clusters have a region of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) ...
By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...
Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...
Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...
Type Ia supernovae have long served as essential tools in cosmology, acting as cosmic beacons that help astronomers measure ...
A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...
The VLT captures a stunning infrared view of Sagittarius C, exposing a rich field of young stars. This breakthrough provides ...
An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...
In a groundbreaking advancement for cosmology, an international team of researchers has obtained the sharpest image to date ...