A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said Tuesday.

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Neutrinos are one of the most elusive and omnipresent particles in the universe. Their strange properties may explain why the amounts of matter and antimatter in our universe aren’t equal, as most ...