Before our titular space monster skitters into the picture, “Alien: Earth” places before us the ages-old mankind versus ...

Scientists found helium hydride reacts faster than expected, reshaping early star formation timelines and cooling processes.

For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But with Galileo's groundbreaking observations in the 1600s, the idea of a ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

This means the field has evidence that shores up its own findings by being believable on two fronts. On the one hand, it ...

NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy about 100 million light-years away, which is close in space terms. It has a strange shape and a golden haze coming from its center. This is because it's merging with a ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

"If we were able to take a picture of WASP-17b at optical wavelengths and resolve the disk of the planet, we would see these types of sun dog features." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope revisited Hubble's Ultra Deep Field, capturing infrared images revealing thousands of distant galaxies. JWST's observations, using instruments like NIRCam and MIRI, ...

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's ...