While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. Taken during the experiment's 'survey validation' phase, the data include distant ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to astronomers. Now, NASA says that data Hubble has been gathering over the years could challenge what we thought we ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jeffrey Cooke, Professor, Centre for Astrophysics and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A treasure trove of data released by NASA this week is giving astronomers insight into what the ...

The fate of the universe is still very much up in the air. Right now it is expanding, at an accelerating rate. If nothing changes, many billions or trillions of years from now the universe would ...

Space scientists have discovered a 'super Jupiter' orbiting a white dwarf, detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia mission. Space scientists have recently ...