The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

By harnessing the Speed Force, DC Comics ’ Flash is the fastest being in comic book history, capable of moving at speeds that ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...