Astronomers have spotted an unexpected chemical heavyweight drifting through deep space - and it may offer new clues about how life gets started. Detected near the center of the Milky Way, the ...

The cosmos is a tapestry woven with wonder, but what if that tapestry has loose threads, even holes, that challenge ...

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, ...

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe." ...

On a mountaintop in Chile's sprawling Atacama Desert, a new telescope has turned its mechanical eyes to the heavens, stargazing with unprecedented intensity. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Artificial intelligence has uncovered 1,400 strange cosmic objects hidden inside Hubble’s massive image archive. The ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might have solved a decades-old mystery regarding how the Moon lost its magnetic field with a recent study published in ...