The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Einstein rings are fascinating astronomical phenomena caused by gravitational lensing. When light from a distant object ...

A breathtaking cosmic dance unfolds as the Webb Telescope captures a star's birth, set against a spiral galaxy's mesmerizing ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." ...

This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only ...

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet "the cosmic tornado." But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and ...

The extreme resolution achieved by the Event Horizon Telescope enabled studies of jets closer than ever to the central supermassive black holes of these galaxies. The team investigated the ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk.

Scientists are harnessing a global network of radio telescopes to glimpse at the gigantic black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The goal is to capture the first-ever images of a black hole ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map ... PUNCH lifted off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base against the black expanse of clear California sky at 11:11 p.m. Eastern time.