New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The team from Durham University uses gravitational lensing to observe stars across the universe.

If the Universe is inhabited by older alien civilizations, those who have ventured out to the stars and colonized galaxies, we would expect to see a footprint of extraterrestrial activity. Could the ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff,” and new research brings a deeper understanding to this ...

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...

Fire up the grill for some space sausage! Dan Smith explains a weird event with intergalactic implications. 🌌💫 ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Col. Ryan Laughton isn’t guarding the galaxy with a talking raccoon or a walking tree, but his mission is no less cosmic.

In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off Atlanta’s I-85. He had recently graduated from college ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief ... Using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope in California, Hubble noted that the farther a galaxy was from the Milky Way, Earth's home galaxy, the faster ...