A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

"It's time we all realize that we are crew members on this spaceship called Earth and start to think about our role and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...