In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

A multinational research collaboration led by the University of Oxford has pinpointed an immense, extraordinarily thin band ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

A new study claims to show evidence of gamma-ray emissions that closely resemble those expected from two weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, colliding and annihilating.

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Star Trek has had many strong villains over the years, but there are several that stand out from the rest in the franchise.

"Star Trek" fans love a good twist, but sometimes the writers conjure up a turn of events so shocking that even die-hard ...