Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just out of sight.

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

stars and galaxies were allowed to form. At around 9 to 10 billion years after the Big Bang, or about 5 to 4 billion years ago, something strange began to happen. The universe started to expand again.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The James Webb Space Telescope from NASA released remarkable details about the star-forming star system Lynds 483, which scientists call L483. The star factory, Lynds 483, exists 650 light-years from ...

On Saturday, March 29, 2025, four zodiac signs receive an important message from the universe. For those of ... March 29 symbolizes new beginnings in your chart, and for you, that's no small ...