Local Hot Bubble mapped in 3D, reveals temperature variations Discovery of an interstellar tunnel heading toward Centaurus New data links the bubble to a potential superbubble in our galaxy ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo ... which should help provide a more precise map of the largest structures in the universe. One group, led by ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

A team of astronomers has identified a double gravitational lens system with an extraordinary “zig-zag” light path, rewriting ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” galaxies in the early universe.

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...