From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these otherworldly sights are captured in sharp detail by astrophotographers ...

Experts have virtually explored the far reaches of the solar system to gather precise measurements of the glow that fills the ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

Dorn et al, 'CRIRES+ On the Sky at the ESO Very Large Telescope ... Ledoux, 'The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature at a Redshift if 2.34', Nature, Vol 408, pp911–935 (2000 ...

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang ... shows the whole sky filled with a glow, day and night. This glow is called the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is one of the most ...

If you’ve ever looked up at a mostly blue sky and seen straight white lines criss-crossing the horizon, or watched a plane ...

Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies shined their light into space, leaving behind an imperceptibly faint night light known as the cosmic optical background. NASA's New Horizons s ...

Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" depicts a swirling blue sky with yellow moon and stars. The sky is an ...

As objects move through the sky against the background of stars ... from tip to tip — which is still quite big for a deep space probe. But it appeared very bright, owing to its reflective ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time -- but that's not how many ...

New all-sky survey by the MeerKAT radio telescope shows the universe as expected at large distances - unlike previous ...