The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...