Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

Understanding the vast structure of the universe, from galaxies to superclusters, requires complex models and immense computational resources. However, the development of Effort.jl, an emulator ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

For centuries, the primary way that astronomers studied outer space was through sight. But just ten years ago, scientists ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming ...

( Nanowerk News) If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into ...