Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

An early universe radio jet spanning an astonishing 200,000 light years has been discovered by the International Gemini Observatory and LOFAR. Credit: Images and Videos: LOFAR/DECaLS/DESI Legacy ...

Space travel at the speed of light or even faster has long been a dream of science fiction, but what if we could travel 1 light year per second? In this fascinating exploration of space travel beyond ...

When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, sends out bursts of radio waves and X-rays that last two minutes and repeat every 44 ...

Scientists using radio wavelength data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) spotted a strangely symmetrical sphere located thousands of light-years away.

Located approximately 625 light-years from Earth in the Chamaeleon constellation, astronomers soon nicknamed HH 49/50 the “Cosmic Tornado” for its distinct funnel shape. Herbig-Haro objects ...

NGC 6302, known as the Butterfly Nebula, is located between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The image includes near-ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light.