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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx, which is short ...

Measuring 93 billion light-years in diameter, the universe is so big that it can be overwhelming to envisage. Despite its ...

A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed from Europe's Euclid space telescope on Thursday. It ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope launched ...

The image was shared by NASA astronaut Don Pettit.

Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...

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We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set ...

NASA on Wednesday released new images and data of Comet 3I/ATLAS, the rare interstellar object that set off weeks of speculation — and a full-blown online debate — over whether it could be an alien ...