Astronomers are closing in on a result so statistically secure that, in their language, it borders on certainty: a 99.9999999 ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...

Universe May Be Twice As Old as Experts Thought — Not 13.8 But Possibly 26 Billion Years Old: New Study Around two years ago, certain observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) about the ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

A virtual event, "Astronomy Unlocked: How to Choose Your Best Telescope," is scheduled for November 20, 2025, at 9:00 am EST, designed to provide a comprehensive guide to selecting astronomical ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

"This signifies a major development in astronomy and physics." Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this would mark the ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's ...