The MEGATRON project spent 40 million processor hours on the United Kingdom’s national supercomputers, a budget the ...

Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because the cosmos is ruled by substances that give off no light at all. Dark ...

A team of astronomers using a Yale supercomputer have determined for the first time that galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than their counterparts in less dense regions of the ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a "razor-thin" string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it's ...

This mosaic shows galaxies in different shapes captured by Euclid during its first observations of the Deep Field areas. The European Space Agency released a detailed catalog of more than 380,000 ...

Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.

A high school student’s discovery of three unusual dwarf galaxies could provide new evidence for a long-predicted phenomenon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive new project maps dark matter using 100 million galaxies, turning old telescope data into a clearer picture of the ...