In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Using a novel imaging technique on a ground-based telescope, astronomers captured the sharpest view of a star's disk, ...

Chinese researchers have developed a spectroscopic chip with a novel technique that offers an unprecedented combination of ...

Astronomers are making significant strides in detecting an ancient signal from one of the universe’s most unexplored periods.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

A recent detection from JWST is being widely discussed. The discoverers suggest that it might be an incredible record-breaker ...

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope began as a costly failure — a flawed mirror that blurred the universe. After a ...

Uncover the mystery of the gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center. New simulations suggest dark matter collisions could ...

Chinese researchers have developed a spectroscopic technique that offers an unprecedented combination of exceptional ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

Not just the universe as we see it, but the universe as we try to comprehend ... to rethink cosmology should not detract from the extraordinary achievements of astronomy and cosmology over the past ...