Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

Join us on a tasty journey as we explore the intergalactic menu for astronauts on epic space voyages! From futuristic pre-packaged meals and freeze-dried delicacies to fresh veggies grown in zero ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth.

This first-generation Nigerian American artist channels dark sci-fi on a new Afropop-influenced sonic and visual project.

In an era when space is a contested frontier — crowded with satellites, ambition and geopolitics — Taiwan’s pursuit of a cosmic presence is a story less about conquest and more about survival. Unlike ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

White dwarves are the compact, shriveled cores of once-mighty stars that have expelled their outer gas layers into space. In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?