The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with data ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters remained largely incomplete. Our telescopes simply haven't been sensitive enough ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

A faint orange dot captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be the most distant galaxy ever detected. The ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...