According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

The upcoming live-action Masters of the Universe movie has fans cautiously optimistic, but early plot details have sparked ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously ... supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputer Center in Lugano — formerly Europe's most powerful ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy title of 2004 GU9. Quasi-moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to ...

If the universe curves back on itself like the screen in the classic video game Pac-Man, these anomalies might be crucial for understanding its shape. To get the idea think about the contrast between ...