"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded in a fraction of a ...

In a world that seems to be spinning out of control — where “up” is “down” and lies are normative, where corruption grows and ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the final stages in the ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped galaxy, nicknamed the "Big Wheel," has been found just two billion years after ...

Hands shaking, I reach to lift the pallu away from my mother’s face. “Don’t.’” I stop. My knees digging into stone, my body ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...