Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

The Roman telescope will track 100,000 cosmic explosions, revealing how the early universe expanded and offering new clues ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope hint at an excess of "UB-bright" galaxies in the first 400 million years after ...

As we delve into the mysteries of the cosmos, one question that often arises is: where is the darkest place in the solar ...

Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.

A research team from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a new electron acceptor that extends the photoresponse of organic photodetectors (OPDs) ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.