For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Galaxy rotation curves have been confounding astronomers for decades. Stars on the peripheries of galaxies rotate faster than visible matter can account for.

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...