In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

"History shows us that whenever you do open a new 'energy window,' you never really know what you're going to find. It's completely unexplored." ...

Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Astronomers have discovered what is believed to be the largest structure in the universe, more than 1.4 billion light-years across and containing seventy galactic superclusters. Our solar system is a ...

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured images of an Einstein Ring in a nearby galaxy.

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...