Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

Astronomers observed Cosmic Dawn, 800 million years post-Big Bang, with Earth-based telescopes. This era marked the formation of the first stars and galaxies, ending the cosmic dark ages.

A ground telescope in Chile detected cosmic polarization signals, confirming the universe’s first stars' timeline.

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

By studying light from this time, such as polarised microwave signals left on the cosmic microwave background, scientists can learn how the first luminous objects shaped the universe’s structure.

Unsplash/Khamkeo Vilaysing Dubai: A rare cosmic explosion lit up the southern ... was confirmed on Saturday night when a dazzling point of light, now designated AT 2025nlr, was spotted in the ...

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Using a telescope in Chile, astronomers have captured a high-speed collision between two galaxies located more than 11 billion light-years away ... this system the 'cosmic joust,'" Pasquier ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

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But the rest of the universe is made of cosmic baryons, or ordinary matter ... That’s because ordinary matter emits light at different wavelengths, but much of it is so diffuse that it ...