New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has redefined humanity's capacity to study the cosmos. Its unprecedented sensitivity in ...
The ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed on many missions over its 34 years in service, and helped us ...
Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is likely very rare.
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 ...
Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula. The planetary nebula WeSb 1 ...
The Great Filter theory suggests that our lack of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations may arise from either their ...
Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.