Thirty-five years after its launch into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still wowing us with its views of the universe, and the cosmic mysteries ... at the 10 o’clock position near the ...

This discovery has quickly become one of the most significant cosmic revelations in recent years. The newfound galaxy was identified through data collected by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a ...

It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over ... Disk galaxies typically have clear spiral arms extending outward from a dense central region. Our Milky Way itself is a disk galaxy ...

The Newgrange tomb is an even more sophisticated “cosmic calendar” than was thought, according to new research. A Galway-based researcher says he has deciphered the famous spiral carvings on ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, which recently completed 35 years in the vaccum of space, has sent a mesmerising new image of Messier 77, a spiral galaxy ... nebula to a cosmic icon shows how advances ...

NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies ... This is the first time that strands of the cosmic web spanning the entire universe ...

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For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. transcript This transcript was created using speech recognition software ...