Welcome to This Week in Astronomy, brought to you by Celestron, the world’s leading manufacturer of telescopes. I’m Dave Eicher, editor emeritus of Astronomy magazine. This time, I want to talk about ...

The Galaxies Spring Showcase 2026, presented by Pluto TV, is set to take place later this week and will feature announcements and updates for over 50 games, including seven world premieres from some ...

While researchers did use the James Webb Space Telescope to discover a cluster of galaxies they called the "Cosmic Vine," they didn't release an image circulating on social media as part of their ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, because that’s where the conditions are right for stars to form. Within galaxies, stars form inside cold, dense molecular gas clouds like those ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...

The Galaxies Showcase 2025 is nearly here, and it's set to feature more than 50 games, six world premieres, exclusive reveals, demo drops, and so much more. There is a lot to look forward to, and ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

The early universe is speckled with little red dots, and now we may have an idea of how these peculiar galaxies originated: They were born with almost no spin. Little red dots were totally unknown ...