Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

Found on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, this visitor is only the third ...

The atlas covers the expanse of the universe and the inner solar system, and it cycles through the lives and deaths of stars. It flings readers out to Neptune and Uranus, ...

Everything has to end eventually – including the universe itself. It might be hard to imagine a catastrophe big enough to affect the entirety of existence, but here are some of the leading ...

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators released a giant 2D map of the universe, which paves the way for the upcoming ...

Some galaxies in the atlas are similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. NGC 7331 is one such galaxy, and in the visible part of the spectrum (above) we see blue tinged starlight and dark lanes of ...

*Oh, that's handy. Be a great map service to have if you were, you know, six thousand light years out. Link: An Atlas of The Universe. This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what ...

A new project is doing something amazing: Uncovering the mathematical universe. A team of more than 80 mathematicians from 12 countries has started charting the terrain of rich, new mathematical ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.