NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

The universe looks bright and familiar when we look up at the night sky. We see stars, planets, galaxies, and glowing clouds ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...