Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

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A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. The mission, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to investigate key elements of cosmology ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...