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 ...

Quasars reside throughout the universe at extreme distances from our galaxy. The scientists used data from Hubble’s Cosmic ...

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 ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

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.

The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...

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 ...