Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

It’s a given that anyone who has been 'initiated' into the etymologies of science would know that the universe, at the beginning of time, was a blaze of radiation, too hot for any atoms to survive.

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Star Wars is known throughout cinematic history for having some of the most terrifying villains ever, so let's look at the ...

This graphic shows the location of the Euclid Deep Fields (yellow). This all-sky view is an overlay of ESA Gaia’s star map from its second data release in 2018 and ESA Planck’s dust map from 2014. The ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

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