Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...

In a combined image from the two space telescopes, two star clusters shine in the darkness of space. A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky ...

The new AI system can estimate cosmological parameters with stunning precision, and it could help astronomers unpick one of the thorniest problems in the field. When you purchase through links on our ...

The European Space Agency has released the first major batch of data from its “dark universe” telescope Euclid. What’s inside could change our understanding of dark matter and the expansion of the ...

The universe is expanding. But how fast? Why is this happening? And what will be the universe’s ultimate fate? These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail ...