When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A rare Einstein Cross displays five points of light instead of the usual four, created from the ...

NGC 941 is located approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. This faint galaxy is classified as ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

In that sense, warped galaxies are not just a curiosity of optics, they are a key diagnostic for understanding why the Universe looks the way it does and how its invisible components shape the visible ...

To find them, researchers first used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a powerful telescope designed to observe the faint glow of cold dust in distant space. ALMA ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden population of dusty galaxies that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang, offering a new glimpse into the universe’s formative years. An international ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has produced the first ...

Through the looking glass: In the faint distortions of distant galaxies, astronomers have glimpsed the scaffolding of the universe. A new high-resolution dark matter map, created using data from the ...