Expansion of the universe had already been anticipated by theorists. In the early 1920s, Alexander Friedmann and Georges ...

Galaxies near and far are a favorite target for Hubble's spiritual and technological successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, built to investigate (among other things) how galaxies form, grow, merge ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

MIT scientists say that dark energy could be the missing factor that explains some of the most perplexing phenomena in the ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

James and Emily Douthat lecture series will host Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Ph.D., associate professor of astrophysical sciences and ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

James Webb Telescope sparks debate over current cosmological theories Recent discoveries may suggest the need for new physics ...

Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” ...