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

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

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules essentials for life as we know it.

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

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

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, ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?

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

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). Just as the Milky Way is much more massive than the Large Magellanic Cloud, Sgr A* is much more massive ...