An international team of scientists has unveiled the Flagship 2 galaxy mock-up. No, it's not a cardboard diorama for a school ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

Take a 3D tour of James Webb Space Telescope's view of the 'Cosmic Cliffs' of the Gum 31 nebula (part of the Carina Nebula Complex). Credit: Producer: Greg Bacon & Frank Summers (STScI), NASA’s ...

NASA’s newest eye on the cosmos is officially open for business, commencing its regular science operations this week with the main charge of mapping the universe. After a six-week calibration period, ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy: the mysterious driver of our universe’s accelerating expansion. Today, the ...

The 3D production Hidden Universe has been released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe, with world premieres on 28 June 2013 at Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The cosmos is filled with unexpected surprises. Observatories ...

'The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation events and place fundamental constraints on the dynamical path followed by the ...

Why it matters: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have created the largest 3D map of the universe, with a precision of 1 percent. But what they discovered is startling in its implications and raises ...

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(CNN) — The cosmos is filled with unexpected surprises. Observatories such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory see the universe in different wavelengths of ...