Ralph Waldo Emerson once penned the words “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

NASA's retired Space Shuttle Discovery could be on the move from Virginia to Texas under a provision in the GOP's so-called ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

The outer space is a fascinating place that will neve cease to amaze us, with incredible views that gives us a perspective of ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...