This scrap metal masterpiece is ready for an intergalactic adventure! Photo credit: Angel Gaikwad-Burkey Imagine if steampunk had a baby with a junkyard ... but the components of a cosmic travel ...

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

Chris Gunn—NASA “Part of our core science for Roman is to do surveys that allow us to measure the properties of very large numbers of galaxies throughout cosmic history,” says Schlieder ...

The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. Telescopes spy a monster radio jet ...

That timeline means that this supermassive black hole, estimated to have a mass around 200 million times that of the sun, existed in a vital cosmic period known as the "epoch of reionization." ...

However, Lane and his colleagues tested an alternative idea called the timescape model, which suggests that the apparent acceleration could be a byproduct of cosmic structures like voids — vast ...

Such interactions can drastically alter their shapes and trigger new star formation, giving rise to spectacular cosmic displays. This is a picture of two galaxies that are close enough to interact ...

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like chirping birds in an unexpected place NEW YORK -- Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place.

What is the structure of our physical reality? Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be ...

"In astronomy we can do the same thing with pictures of the cosmic microwave background, which is when the universe was a baby, to predict how big and how fast the universe would be expanding today.