Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be ...

The observatory aims to answer a number of questions about the universe by studying different phenomena in the sky, including ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

These unique dark sky experiences from New Brunswick to New Mexico allow travelers to immerse themselves in ancient origin ...

An international team combining two major neutrino experiments has uncovered stronger evidence that neutrinos and antimatter don’t behave as perfect mirror images. That subtle difference may hold the ...

From waterfalls that seem to disappear into nowhere to blood-colored water, these places are shrouded in mystery—even if science can explain most of them.

Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

Is 3I/ATLAS just a comet — or an intergalactic ark? A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the possibility that the comet is an ...

WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new constellation being developed by Open Cosmos that will use spectrum previously assigned to Rivada Space Networks. The ...