Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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

The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner ...

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 ...

NASA and JAXA’s XRISM mission detected chlorine and potassium in Cassiopeia A, revealing how supernovae forge life-essential ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...