This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the ...

From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space on April 24, 1990, ushering an array of scientific discoveries for the past 35 years.

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

A new study suggests the universe might be slowly rotating, completing a full revolution every 500 billion years. This subtle ...