Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to chart 164,000 galaxies across billions of light-years, ...

Newtons Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. However, most of them are effectively ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy ...

Perseverance just landed on Mars, where it will search for signs of life. But space's cool factor doesn't begin or end there!

A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.

A new Space Warps project lets the public hunt for gravitational lenses in data from the Euclid Space Telescope.

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...