Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

Observing such an explosion could unlock secrets of the universe. Like cracking a cosmic piñata, an exploding PBH would ...

The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside me were two-ton custom jigs and dozens ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects.

The Extremely Large Telescope, located in Paranal, Chile, is poised to be the largest optical telescope ever constructed.

This is not a close-up of a sparkling soda from a movie theater promotion. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image ...

Using a brand new data analysis tool, astronomers identified more than 800 strange and previously undocumented space objects.

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

When the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie first tried to canoe across North America in 1789, he unwittingly followed a river that led him north to the Arctic instead of west to the Pacific. When ...