Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

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NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

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The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

According to NASA, Hubble took its latest photo of 3I/ATLAS on November 30 using its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At that ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

X-ray telescopes catch a black hole firing ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s, revealing how flares trigger extreme cosmic ...

The data is starting to reveal how galaxies and their black holes evolve. After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies ...