A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Iconic spaceships from Star Trek has been spotted in space – according to playful rocket scientists. The team from NASA Universe shared images on Monday (Sep 8) of what appear to be the original USS ...

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

In Himachal’s Bilaspur, a new space lab with telescopes, drones, and 3D printers brings hands-on STEM learning to rural ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

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 ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...