While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

A piece of flaming suspected space junk has landed in the desert in Western Australia, prompting fresh concerns the much ...

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