Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

JWST has unveiled the sharpest-ever map of the universe’s hidden cosmic web, reaching back nearly to cosmic dawn.

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

In 2025, astronomers at Germany's Max Planck Institute quietly revealed a discovery buried in decades of dormant satellite ...

3I/ATLAS became the main character when it came hurtling into our solar system last year, so it’s only fitting it gets a dramatic backstory. After using the ALMA observatory in Chile to closely ...

Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone sit right above bodies of magma, and most show evidence of past eruptions. Researchers used ambient noise tomography and image vibrations to analyze a region of Tuscany ...

Chris Stockdale first became interested in outer space during the 1960s and built his own observatory Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App ...

Since March, scientists have been keeping their eyes peeled as the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) started chipping away at the final tile of the largest 3D map of the universe to date. And ...

A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly rare glimpse into the earliest days of our universe, at a time when it was not possible for a telescope ...