In a nutshell Scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time, ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

S agittarius A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our galaxy, is not as placid as previously thought, new observations with the JWST reveal. Instead, the surrounding accretion disk ...

Why it's so special: Large galaxies like our own Milky Way come from small "seed" galaxies, which grow, collide and merge over time, with each interaction causing more stars to form as gas and ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

One of the many amazing things about the NASA program is its ability to capture images from far off galaxies that none of us ...

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...