The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

From planets that rain glass sideways to worlds made entirely of ice or fire, the universe is full of bizarre and ...

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...

ANALYSIS: The groundbreaking findings throw established science into question, write Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our understanding of how quickly galaxies can mature ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as "antigravity," undoing the work of gravity, which clumps together matter to build vast ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18b, a planet outside our solar system.

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...