The sparkling centerpiece of NGC 2014 is a grouping of bright, hefty stars, each 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...