For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

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 ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the cosmic web through direct measurements." When you purchase through links on ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, ...

For decades, astronomers were certain that half of the ordinary matter in the universe — protons and neutrons, the building blocks of everything we see — had simply gone unaccounted for. The cosmic ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just spotted round clusters of stars inside a galaxy more than 13 billion light years away, which formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The ...