It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

This Hubble ... findings pose a paradox: the dark energy density we observe is not the one that would maximize the chances of ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

The James Webb Telescope (JWT), launched in December 2021, has reshaped our understanding of the universe in ways that many ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.