Scientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way. The discovery, reported in March in the journal Nature...
What it is: NGC 2685, a lenticular and "polar ring" galaxy Where it is: 40 million light-years away, in the constellation Ursa...
Have we got “Bad Blood”? Sabrina Carpenter stuns in a series of ’90s-inspired images for Skims’ latest lingerie...
Researchers have unveiled a moving 3D map of supermassive black holes that covers the largest volume of our universe ever charted. The...
What was little more than a speck of light for the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealed as one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered...
Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics...
For the first time since 1972, NASA landed a craft on the surface of the Moon in February 2024. But the agency didn’t do it alone...
Evidence for the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has come to light, thanks to observations made by the James...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest "dead" galaxy ever seen — but the cosmic corpse...
Astronomers have spotted the heaviest black hole pair ever seen — a duo weighing the equivalent of 28 billion suns. The...
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an effect predicted by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to discover...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary binary system in which a "dead star," or white dwarf, whips around its blisteringly hot...
What if the world of dark matter was a mirror of our own, just with a broken set of rules? That might explain why dark matter appears...
Black holes are regions of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing — not even light — can escape....
Weirdo universe(Image credit: The LIFE Images Collection/Getty)There's no questioning the fact that the universe is weird. Just look...
Among his many theoretical insights, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of two phenomena in our universe that have since been...
Elon Musk on Friday said the purpose of his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, will be to "understand the universe." In...
When the universe’s first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth’s sun, new...
