Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

The academic duo calculated the average volume of “space spunk,” approximately one teaspoon, as well as its density, one gram ...

While reviewing a survey of the sky taken in 2019, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted LEDA 1313424. The […] ...

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests. Astrophysicist Aaron Boley discusses the impact of this on humanity and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual ...

Scientists have found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes 13 billion light years away.