By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

The researchers hope their landmark discovery will prompt follow-up observations of magnified stars in both the Dragon Arc ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Scientists detected water along with carbon monoxide in SPT0311-58 - made up of two galaxies - located nearly 12.88 billion ...