Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...

A general view of the Orion Nebula during the planet parade or planetary alignment when four planets are visible to the naked eye on the evening sky in Sparta N.C. on January 25, 2025.

New rumors suggest we could see the Galaxy S25 Edge on April 16 The phone could apparently then go on sale in May A new era of super-slim phones is upon us Back on January 22, we saw three Samsung ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion light-years away. The foreground galaxy's mass magnifies and distorts the image ...

On Friday, however, Mercury will join the planetary parade of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But not all seven planets will be visible to the naked eye. You'll need high-powered ...

The game is coming from studio Playable Worlds, led by Raph Koster, one of the lead creators of MMO classics like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Stars Reach is putting a heavy emphasis on ...

An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target. An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies ...

This was the end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of galaxy formation. These first stars and the galaxies they formed were very different from anything we see in the modern universe.

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at ...