Scientists believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Welcome to the final winter edition of the Icebox! After three years of keeping it cool with lots of video games, anime and just a hint of Venom, the Icebox series is nearing the end of its time here ...

Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because ...

Since first light, James Webb has been ripping open the early universe and finding galaxies that look far too bright and ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest rotating structures ever seen in the universe: a razor-thin line of galaxies ...