Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

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 ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

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

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

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

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

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...