Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...
Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...
After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...
Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
Unlike any other similarly distant galaxy, it shows a very clear, telltale signature that suggests the galaxy contains a ...
A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...
The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...
The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
GS-z13-1, located around 33 billion light-years from us. This galaxy has a redshift of 13.0, which is a measure of how much a ...
Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...