While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Three interstellar objects; ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS—have passed through the Solar System. This article details ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...

As humans set their sights on living beyond Earth, one surprising challenge is emerging: how do we grow healthy crops in the uncharted environment of space? Purdue University researchers, in ...