No need for hyperdrive: Scientists have released an “expansion pack” for a virtual tour of the universe that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own computer. The latest version of the publicly ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire universe. A team of researchers has analyzed more ...

The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in time, while most of the others lie even farther away, and hence are seen even further back in time ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is known for the beautiful images that it captures and its newest photo doesn't disappoint. The telescope was observing a series of interacting galaxies ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling inward.

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a shocking discovery. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have discovered enormous distant galaxies that some say shouldn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows a small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, including two ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." When you purchase through links on our ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...