Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

Researchers have identified a new complex molecule in space called cyanocoronene. It is a type of hydrocarbon composed of ...

The ALMA Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced astronomical facilities, has uncovered unprecedented details about the ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers who uncovered Eos, a dark molecular cloud near Earth, using ultraviolet light detection to reveal ...

You may have seen the recently released ‘first images’ from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images are stunning and ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...