With uncertainty surrounding program funding, federal cuts and state budget shortfalls, some University of Washington ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

The universe is expanding, but astronomers still cannot agree on exactly how fast. That mismatch, known as the Hubble tension ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Space weather is notoriously hard to predict, but one forecast map shows parts of Indiana might see the northern lights low on the horizon Dec. 8.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

For 19-year-old Gael Gomez, the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers has changed his life for the better. But soon, he may be ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...