It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C.

For over 10 years, an international team of astronomers have been scanning the sky with a special telescope called the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), which sees the world through radio waves – a kind of ...

The space between galaxies is not empty. In a new map of the early universe, those “blank” stretches take on a faint, hydrogen-blue glow that had mostly escaped surveys until now.

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

A new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, finally changes that. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), researchers built a three-dimensional map of ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy wrapped up in a big emotional way with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , closing out the story that James Gunn started back in 2014. But, in the Marvel universe, ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids, which will from now on be discovered at an astonishing rate as it begins ...