HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create an opportunity for precision in space exploration that has never been ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent observations could overturn this long-held assumption ...

Only after that could rocky planets form, and by extension, habitable planets. That’s been axiomatic in astronomy.

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...