Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the dusty aftermath of violent impacts that were once only theoretical. Instead of ...

An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada–France–Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been ...

The international network of gravitational wave detectors LIGO in the United States, Virgo in Italy and KAGRA in Japan (LVK) announced the publication of an updated catalogue of all gravitational ...

An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection of 128 new cosmic collisions involving black holes and neutron stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a remarkable cosmic phenomenon that scientists are calling the “Cosmic Owl.” This strange structure, located billions of light-years away, was formed ...

Cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed from a high-energy to low-energy environment—the Big Bang. Today, scientists believe cosmic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. They fixed Hubble telescope: Pair of ...