The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), was formally proposed in 2001 to create an…
During the Universe's Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling. Only when the first…
The gigantic galaxies we see in the Universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers…
Nature, in its infinite inventiveness, provides natural astronomical lenses that allow us to see objects beyond the normal reach of…
The Universe's very first stars had an important job. They formed from the primordial elements created by the Big Bang,…
Hubble and Webb have come together to create one of the most detailed and revealing images of an iconic galaxy…
A new paper shows how gravitational lenses could be used to beam power from one star system to another.
Galaxies are surrounded by magnetic field lines, spanning tens of thousands of light-years. These magnetic fields have previously been measured…
Almost all the galaxies in the Universe are speeding away from us because of the Big Bang and the acceleration…
amma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, briefly outshining all the stars in their galaxy combined. They…