The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system could be something far stranger than a comet, possibly even alien ...

The findings suggest that sufficiently small particles introduced into the laboratory vortex should behave similarly to dust ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Earth's famous Hubble Telescope has just revealed the first images of a mysterious interstellar object racing through our ...

Scientist studying a star over 440 light-years away have spotted a planet creating intricate patterns in the star's ...

If you’ve ever looked up at the stars and felt a twinge of cosmic wonder, now is your time to lean in. The Perseids meteor ...

"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over ...