A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

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

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner ...

Keck Observatory reports that spectroscopy from its Keck Cosmic Web Imager, combined with data from NASA’s James Webb and ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...