Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark...
A new study using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) final datasets suggests potential inconsistencies in the standard cosmological model, known...
Swirling through the Milky Way’s central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of...
A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers...
A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” holds more mystery but is even less likely to...
New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy—the earliest...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our...
At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex...
