This new 3D map of giant galaxy M87 shows it has a potato shape. It’s sort of like looking at a swarm of 100 billion bees. Though we are looking at them from a distance and can’t discern individual ...

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave ...

Installed on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) has one of the most grandiose missions in human history: to ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach ...

Within this 2D image is the galaxy proto-supercluster, COSMOS-z3.1-A, in the early universe. Credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector / M. Zamani & D. de Martin Astronomers have taken a ...