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

Fusion is the next big energy frontier. Companies and nations alike are pouring money into researching it to find a way to ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in a star. It is likely a direct descendant of one of the universe's first ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii. Its hyperbolic orbit, a trajectory not ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...