The universe’s expansion makes cosmic distance far less intuitive than simply measuring how long light has traveled.

Faint, distant galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope are beginning to reshape how scientists understand the high ...

Astronomers have identified a potential new clue that could help track some of the universe’s most elusive objects: runaway ...

Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed. A new study suggests it could consist of at least two ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab Dust patterns around quasars may help reveal supermassive ...

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Some weird, wild stuff revealed in infrared.

Far beyond the Milky Way, vast collections of galaxies continue to drift, gather and occasionally collide. One such region has drawn astronomers’ attention for decades.

Two supermassive black holes about the mass of one billion suns are on their way to smash into each other in about 100 years.

The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can explain its peculiarity differently.

Astronomers have discovered a "galaxy-killing wind" that may explain why there are far more massive "dead" galaxies than expected in the early universe. This wind, powered by cosmic collisions between ...