One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...

Astronomers have taken a hard new look at how fast the universe is expanding and arrived at a disquieting conclusion. The latest observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space ...

A star that once symbolized constancy is suddenly looking far less steady. Astronomers are turning fresh attention to Polaris ...

About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

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At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...