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

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

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

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

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

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

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 ...