A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Our best theory of the universe might be breaking apart! The new data we're receiving from space telescopes is creating more ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

A virtual event, "Astronomy Unlocked: How to Choose Your Best Telescope," is scheduled for November 20, 2025, at 9:00 am EST, designed to provide a comprehensive guide to selecting astronomical ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...