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

New observations from the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NSF NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very ...

Discover how scientists traced a mysterious radio signal from an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light-years away, ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the "cosmic dawn" could help shed light on the universe's most mysterious and ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified over 40 stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away, thanks to ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences ...

The Great Filter theory suggests that our lack of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations may arise from either their ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Observations with the South Pole Telescope have revealed an independent addition to the biggest problem in cosmology.

The atoms that make up your body weren’t just born in the hearts of stars—they embarked on a mind-bending journey far beyond ...