This year brought remarkable cosmic breakthroughs, and these are the most significant space discoveries that captured the ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

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Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe works, a telescope captures something that doesn’t fit any existing theory.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

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Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

The discovery brings the total number of known Uranian moons to 29. Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

The scientific world is reeling. New discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope — a joint project by the European Space Agency(ESA), NASA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — aren’t just ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...