Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery surrounding this invisible and hypothetical component ...

Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

A razor-thin cosmic filament is one of the largest rotating structures ever found, with implications for early galaxy ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

When I was four years old, my pregnant mother drove my sister and me out to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah to visit my father ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical ...