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

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

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 ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

After being launched into space, the space telescope SPHEREx will observe the universe for 2 1/2 years from an altitude of ...

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

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...