"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

Thousands of flashes of cosmic energy, also known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), erupt across the sky every day. They were ...

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles ...

A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...

In an underground lab in a mountainous region of Italy that contains the coldest temperatures known to exist in the universe, ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light.

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe.

WOH G64 is a red supergiant 160,000 light-years from Earth demonstrating erratic behavior over the last decade ...