Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

Marvel at the distorted galaxy shapes in MACS J0416.1-2403, a galaxy cluster 4 billion light-years away. Behold the breathtaking beauty of Nebula NGC 3603, a giant star-forming region.

Something quite out of the ordinary has been happening in the sky. Ever since Sunday, April 12, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn have been in a visible planetary alignment—aka when multiple planets ...

According to Dr. Thomas Varnish, a co-author from MIT, the study analysis is essential. The statistical procedure uncovered hidden patterns of entire galaxy clusters that might have remained ...

This constellation is home to the eponymous Virgo Cluster of galaxies, which includes the massive elliptical galaxy M87. Discovered in 1781, this magnitude 8.6 galaxy spans roughly 7’ and is ...

Stars rotate. Black holes spin at near maximum speed, as shown by Daly in 2019. Even galaxies and galaxy clusters twist through space. So why not the universe itself? Some hints already suggest ...

Later observations indicated it’s an elliptical galaxy about five billion light-years from Earth. If it’s the source of ORC 1, this first-of-its-kind odd celestial circle is a staggering two ...