XRISM, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, is a joint NASA/JAXA mission led by JAXA. The X-ray space telescope began…
Hundreds of millions of light years away, a supermassive black hole sits in the center of a galaxy cluster named…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently imaged the most distant star ever seen in a distant…
An international team of astronomers recently discovered a fainter, older galaxy using the most extreme case of the gravitational microlensing…
How about four supernovae for the price of one? Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Dr. Patrick Kelly of the University of…
The Milky Way measures 100 to 120 thousand light-years across, a distance that defies imagination. But clusters of galaxies, which…
Doing something extraordinary often requires teamwork for humans, and the same can be said for telescopes. Witness the success of…
Peering deep into the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of researchers have found an extremely distant galaxy.…
Put another checkmark beside the "cold dark matter" theory. New observations by Japan's Subaru Telescope are helping astronomers get a…
[/caption] Located at the southermost point on Earth, the 280-ton, 10-meter-wide South Pole Telescope has helped astronomers unravel the nature…