Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, Kip Thorne, came to the BYU campus to lecture about his discoveries and theories ...

Skywatchers in India can witness a rare celestial event this week. On December 3, 2025, the Moon will pass in front of the ...

Rubenstein had already developed quite a career doing miniseries adaptations of major novels, which he liked to call "novelistic television," some of which included Stephen King's "The Stand" and "The ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...