In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way.

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

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