With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

The easiest way to time travel is more simple than you realise - and it doesn't involve any fancy equipment, say scientists.

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

Titan may seem like a prime candidate for alien life with its organic-rich surface and deep subsurface ocean, but new ...

Detailed Map of Dust in the Milky Way Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into ...

The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from farther out in the galaxy. When two galaxies collide and merge, gas is funneled into the central region of that merger. Some of that gas ends ...

Yes, the Pyramids of Giza - those monuments to god-like splendour that have stood for more than 4,000 years - were built by aliens. That was the 'claim' made by American astronomer Garrett P.

While many are genre-defining works, or at least have some brilliant moments, they’re all a little dry – or a little dated – ...