For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Stephan's Quintet is a four-galaxy merger (with a fifth galaxy photobombing the action) in the ...

What is the biggest object in the universe? Learn more about the biggest objects in the universe, including galaxies, galaxy clusters, and dark matter.

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years. A distant galaxy appears to have more than a dozen tightly packed star-forming ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." Our cosmic neighborhood may ...

As Universe Today reports, scientists have worked back the trajectory of the comet, known as 3I/ATLAS, back to what they believe to be its origin point, the galactic thick disk. 85% of the galaxy's ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

AI improves the precision of cosmological parameter measurements. This AI method is significantly more cost-effective than traditional approaches. The AI analyzes both large and small-scale galaxy ...

An ambitious, multinational project to survey the entire Southern Hemisphere’s night sky over a 10-year period has thousands of astronomers, astrophysicists and data scientists on the threshold of a ...