As the most intense star-forming region in the Local Group, 30 Doradus is of particular importance to astronomers.

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

Some men and women seek romance that begins with extreme but unsustainable passion and are disillusioned when the sparks fade ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

About every 10 minutes, it seems, a new article about a "revolutionary breakthrough" in AI hits my screen. A new approach, a ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...