Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure ...

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the ...

There are parts of the universe, and of the electromagnetic spectrum, that we’re not covering with our telescopes—but not as ...

The Solar System is currently traversing one of them, aptly named the Local Interstellar Cloud. The origin and history of these clouds are believed to be tightly connected to the birth and death of ...

Space discoveries from 2021-2026 revealed new galaxies, exoplanet findings, Mars missions, and major astronomy breakthroughs ...

Dr. Matthew Tiscareno will receive the 2026 Carl Sagan Center Director’s Award for scientific leadership, planetary rings ...

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

There's so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we've only confirmed the ...