There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline ...

As ground-based gamma-ray telescopes increase in complexity, managing their operations demands extensive coordination across ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...