The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Wisconsin's historic Yerkes Observatory reveals a place where Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan, and many pioneering women of astronomy once explored the cosmos.

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Bizarre NASA discoveries that we’re not allowed to talk about (but we will) Space exploration consistently reveals phenomena ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirmed Earendel, the most distant star, shining just one billion years after the Big ...

Their research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, suggests that tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) could trigger these ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

Most of that brightness increase has been in the green part of the visible light spectrum, suggesting a “surge of gas ...

The harvest moon, Michigan's first full supermoon of 2025, will peak the night of Oct. 6. Here's what to know.

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf, a highly compact stellar ember, that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...