The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Galaxies have been found to stop forming stars as early as 700 million years after the Big Bang, earlier than theoretical models predicted. The James Webb Space ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

Dec. 18, 2024 — Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still ...

The close galaxy in the foreground is an elliptical galaxy that's part of a large cluster known as SMACS J0028.2-7537. The more colorful galaxy warped around it is a spiral galaxy similar to the ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

By Andrew Paul Published Mar 31, 2025 3:26 PM EDT A unique set of risks and challenges await the first astronauts on Mars. Deadly solar radiation, nighttime temperatures regularly dropping lower ...

The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous, and NASA has an indispensable ally on the red planet. This is the Curiosity rover, which roams daily on Mars to ...