The universe has a habit of surprising us, revealing its deepest secrets in the most unexpected ways. One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy ...

An extraordinarily rare, gravitationally lensed supernova may offer a powerful new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate.

Are quiescent disks in early-universe galaxies hiding a much more violent reality? Recent research suggests that they might and the evidence is in one of the universe’s strongest natural magnifying ...

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we decipher the universe through its light — its color, intensity, rhythm and ...