"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

The infinite expanse of space is somehow feeling a little bit bigger now, after an international team of researchers announced they had discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed.

Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues — Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen — are once again redefining our solar system’s edge. They ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...

Astronomers know that the universe is at least 13.5 billion years old. The “Big Bang” event, which many believe started the universe as we know it, is packed with trillions of galaxies and stars ...

Deep space has just delivered a cosmic riddle that refuses to fit any familiar category. Astronomers using some of the most ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times ...

Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 billion kilometers from the sun – making it the most distant object to have ...

A random search has turned up a dwarf planet orbiting roughly 10 billion miles away. The far-off world is tiny, and probably very, very cold. Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object So Far In The Solar ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant object ever seen – a strange galaxy some 13.5 billion light-years away. Named HD1, the galaxy may house a never-before-seen population of stars, or a ...

It's been an impressive year for astronomy so far as scientists have broken records for the most distant star and the most distant galaxy ever discovered. The distant objects were spotted even without ...