The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

As space expanded, everything spread out and cooled. Nowadays, the universe is not only huge but also cold in its average ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

The extreme supersonic winds of WASP-127b are more than 60 times faster than the fastest winds ever observed on Earth ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

If it’s renewed for a fourth season, The Sex Lives of College Girls needs an abortion storyline. It’s about damn time that unwanted pregnancy and its termination is presented as part and parcel of the ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...