The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Once that Starship is captured and SpaceX engineers examine it, Space Center Houston would seem to be the perfect place to ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

While most of us are content “reaching for the stars” and “shooting for the moon,” a team of scientists at W.M. Keck Observatory took their ambitions a million steps further by discovering what is now ...

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly ...

CHANTILLY, Va. - NASA turned over space shuttle Discovery on Thursday to the Smithsonian Institution, the first in its orbiter fleet to be transferred to a U.S. museum. The U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...