While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...
New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...
Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...
Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...
A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of ...
But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...
Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.
Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...
Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.
Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ultraviolet light that gradually fade away, leaving behind faint X-ray and ...
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.