New measurements from deep-sky surveys reveal a huge structure pushing into the Milky Way’s outer regions, distorting stars ...

A Japanese scientist thinks he has observed dark matter at the centre of the Milky Way. He says the halo in the galaxy is a ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter.

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

Edwin Hubble redefined the universe and Brazil declared a republic, amid other landmark events shaping history and science ...

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time.

F rom the very first images, JWST showed that it was going to be a revolutionary instrument, and yet it continues to surprise ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result.

The Earth's planetary defenses will observe an interstellar comet flying through the Solar System, the United Nations has ...

WASHINGTON – Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when this celestial beast shredded and swallowed a huge star that ...

A detailed new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of ...