In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

MIT physicists propose that early dark energy, a mysterious force, might be the key to resolving the "Hubble tension" and the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed, explain their evolution through cosmic time, and even hint at their fate. A ...

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...

The discovery of something this immense surprisingly early in the lifetime of the universe overturns what we thought we knew ...