NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an astonishing new image of a star-forming region, nicknamed the "Cosmic Rose, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery.

On the launch anniversary of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, ESA presents a unique compilation of zooms into ...

In 2024, the United States returned a spacecraft to the lunar surface, private astronauts accomplished historic firsts and SpaceX ramped up testing of a vehicle that will prove pivotal in humanity's ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The Earth's atmosphere has been blasted by the second strongest ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) to ever be observed. While its exact origins remain unknown, astrophysicists are pointing the finger ...

Researchers have detected one of the highest-energy particles ever falling to Earth. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that come from sources in space such as the sun, but this recent detection is ...

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe CREDIT A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) Astrophysicists say ...

Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: ...