The instrument, called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), features approximately 2,400 prisms scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

Notably, the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe has taken the lead in ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

What's better than a telescope for viewing the sky - a smart telescope of course and this Dwarf 3 from Dwarflab is just about ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of ...

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.