This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter.

The universe just got a whole lot bigger—or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, ...

By Christopher Gannatti, CFAIn November 2024, it isn’t difficult to find all sorts of perspectives on the so-called ...

In 2023, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory confirmed high-energy neutrinos from the Milky Way, marking a new era in astronomy.

"Understanding these cosmic rays allows us to unveil big particle accelerators in the universe that are often associated with ...

New research reports the most powerful cosmic rays ever detected. Because the rays lose energy as they travel through space, ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...