The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has collected targeted images to answer specific scientific questions ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

In the heart of our galaxy, scientists have discovered the largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever detected beyond Earth, with ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...