cosmology

Surely There Must Be Someone Out There in All That Space

Earendel: Hubble Space Telescope Spots Farthest Star Yet

Spotted in New Gravitational Wave Discovery: A Stranger in the Stellar Graveyard

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Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Watch: Stephen Hawking, the Cosmic Bard, Traveller and Poet

Galaxy NGC 1398, photographed by the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centennial: Einstein’s Desperate Mistake, the Cosmological Constant

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe — and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Caption and credit: hubble_esa/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Universe Out of Sight