While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

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MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...