Our own galaxy exists within a neighborhood of closely gathered galaxies known as the Local Group. In the vastness of space, galaxies are arranged in filaments, clusters, and sheets, which form ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinarily aligned gravitational lens system, dubbed the Carousel Lens, that involves a ...

Black holes hold some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, with giant empty spots in space sucking in whatever enters their ...

Artist Lita Albuquerque is having a major comeback moment following a 2018 wildfire that destroyed her home and studio.

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery in the galaxy cluster known as Zwicky ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) ...

It was only a matter of time before artificial intelligence took on dark matter. A new deep-learning algorithm is set to be ...

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...

A newly discovered cluster-scale strong gravitational lens, with a rare alignment of seven background lensed galaxies, ...

Galaxies and clusters are the ensembles of stars and other astronomical objects bound together by gravitational forces. Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised into ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

A galaxy is robbed of its gas and stars in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The spiral galaxy, ...