The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint ...

Scientists have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter, offering new insight into the invisible force that holds galaxies together.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's biggest dark matter map has been released by NASA and shows an ...

Cold cosmic dust grains can link amino acids into protein‑like chains in deep space, suggesting life’s chemistry may begin ...

Though Earth Must Die is pleasantly compact—I finished in just shy of eight hours—it's full of conundrums, and while it might ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the Universe, showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.