Most of what people casually call “the universe” is not where instinct suggests. Stars, planets and glowing gas clouds are ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most expansive protoplanetary disk documented to date, extending across 400 ...

In a remote sector of deep space, researchers have identified something unexpected — a signature that hints at molecular ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

In this Skywatch 16, Jeremy Lewan shares how newly available data can better help study the universe, evolution of galaxies, ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...