Mapping the distribution of matter in the universe is an important quest for cosmology and astrophysics. There is a battle going on between the universe's accelerated expansion and gravity trying to ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...

Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it ...