Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

Understanding the evolution of radio galaxies is crucial for unravelling the broader processes that shape the universe.

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.