"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

galaxy collisions occur. One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image of the Virgo cluster below. Galaxies at the center of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies The largest nearby ...

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the ...

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around 300-400 million ...