It’s more than the 50 stars on the flag—the American story is suffused with celestial imagery and astronomical symbols.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the largest spinning structures in the Universe, and it could reveal how the Milky Way was formed. Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...