For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that applying pixelized strong-lensing ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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Prepare to witness the cosmos like never before. Astronomers have released two extraordinary images reshaping how we see our ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

Prepare to witness the cosmos like never before. Astronomers have released two extraordinary images reshaping how we see our ...

When the astronomer first saw the image she was 'excited', but then an entirely new feeling took over. Find out more.

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...