While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Star Trek first premiering in 1966, introducing science fiction fans to the crew of the US Enterprise. While Shatner’s ...

Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the influence […] ...

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

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...