An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may not be ...

The final product is a 208-gigapixel image revealing tens of millions of stars in the Milky Way, as well as 14 million ... than 500 times the area of the full moon as it appears in the sky.

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that ... it features tens of millions of stars within the Milky Way and around 14 million distant galaxies beyond our ...

“Even the zoomed in images don’t show the full resolution of Euclid’s spectacular VIS camera. “Before Euclid, we would never be able to see the faint cirrus clouds in the Milky ...

“This stunning image is the first piece of a map that in six years will reveal more than one third of the sky,” a Euclid project scientist at ESA, Valeria Pettorino, said in a press release. “This is ...