The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the ...

Scientists previously had determined the total amount of ordinary matter using a calculation involving light observed that ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, to help ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the international research team estimated that “Roman” may be able to ...

NASA budget proposal slashes science funding by 47%, putting more than 40 current and planned missions at risk.

The pope spoke to dozens of young astronomy students and scholars who were taking part in a monthlong summer school sponsored ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in ...

A new documentary, titled "Sally", based on the life of astronaut Sally Ride, who was previously married to fellow astronaut Steven Hawley, is gearing up for a release on Nat Geo on 16 June.