The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

BEIJING -- In the course of almost two years after China's astronomical satellite named Einstein Probe was launched, it has ...

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- In the course of almost two years after China's astronomical satellite named Einstein Probe (EP) was launched, it has managed to capture many extraordinary transient events ...

China search for Earth 2.0 leads a bold 2026–2030 space plan to probe the early universe, our Sun, and Earth-like exoplanets.

This article delves into the discovery and classification of binary clusters, pairs of star clusters, which provide insights ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) spacecraft has delivered an "unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected a 20-GeV gamma-ray halo around the Milky Way’s center that may match dark-matter annihilation.