The atoms that make up life on Earth—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and more—were forged inside stars long before our planet ...

Physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative, KM3NeT, built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

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Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted the glowing remains of two space rocks crashing together in a nearby planetary system, ...

On a purely visual level — looking at color, form, texture, materials — Todd Siler’s paintings, currently on display at the ...