Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist ...

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled magnificent new images from its Euclid space telescope, representing the agency's first scientific discoveries from early observations. The project, which ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

JWST spotted carbon in a small galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...