"This is an amazingly lucky ‘galactic line-up’ – a chance alignment of multiple galaxies across a line-of-sight spanning most of the observable universe," David Schlegel, an astrophysicist ...

ESA's Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map the "dark Universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

By looking at the resulting ripples, scientists should be able to determine whether multiple sizes of pebbles — or inflation particles, in SPHEREx’s case — created them. Evidence from SPHEREx that the ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered something surprising about the universe's smallest and faintest class of galaxies: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs). A research team studying these ...

Hubble’s sensitivity and sharpness reveals a compact group of multiple galaxies that may be in the process of merging. They existed when the universe was only 5 billion years old. FRB 20220610A ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters ... made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments. It spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...