An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...

Spread the loveOn February 24, 2026, sky watchers and astronomy enthusiasts are in for an exhilarating experience as the cosmos presents a unique opportunity to observe the wonders of the universe.

Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant jellyfish galaxy ever observed.

The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

When Durrell isn’t doing research, or teaching class, he and Curt Spivey, planetarium engineer and show producer, are planning the variety of shows offered at the planetarium during the fall and ...

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...

Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a ...

Most galaxies in the universe glow brilliantly over cosmic time and space. However, a unique type of galaxies remains ...

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, and Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope, the researchers discovered faint light emitting around the clusters. That light was clear ...

The galaxy, cataloged as COSMOS2020-635829, was spotted in data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 ...