The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

NASA has confirmed that operations have begun for its latest space observatory, which is tasked with snapping 3,600 images of ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

At just 300 light-years away, it’s one of the closest large gas clouds ever detected near Earth, and takes up as much sky as a typical constellation.

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

Helicopters are being used to tackle Scotland's fourth wildfire this week after others broke out in England amid warmer-than-usual temperatures. The latest blaze was reported in Galloway at 11 ...

A surprising new discovery has emerged in the study of the universe’s evolution. Scientists, using data from the Atacama ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

The XRISM science team, including members from Nagoya University in Japan, has explained how a galaxy cluster maintains its heat, despite emitting X-rays that cool the hot gas at its center. The group ...