"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence of 'monster stars' in the early universe, explaining the existence of ...

Every episode of season 5 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery.

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon about 24 miles above the ...

Daily solar observations gathered for years at the century-old Kodaikanal Solar Observatory have led to a breakthrough understanding of how the Sun’s magnetic activity varies across its latitudes — a ...

Inside malaria parasites, tiny iron crystals spin like rockets, revealing a hidden weakness scientists may be able to exploit ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve ...

NASA’s IXPE mission has solved a long-standing mystery by revealing how black hole jets generate X-rays, using the longest ...