Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a remarkable milestone—its 100,000th exposure, capturing an image of a quasar located 9 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a series of close-ups showing spectacularly bright infrared galaxies – as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way – pumping out stars and ...

Stargazing is becoming something of a lost art. With light pollution and screen addiction on the rise, it can be easy to forget that the greatest show in the universe is, well, the cosmos itself.

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

LiDAR or "light detection and ranging" is a way of working out and picturing the distance to an object by shooting ...

DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ...

One subclass of brown dwarfs (with effective temperatures between 500 and 1,500 K) is known as T-dwarfs, and represents the coolest and least luminous substellar objects so far detected.